[R] Opening a web browser from R?

Erik Iverson iverson at biostat.wisc.edu
Fri Aug 15 15:23:48 CEST 2008


Hello -

J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there's a way in R to open a web browser (such as 
> Internet Explorer, or Firefox or whatever).
> I'm doing some analyses that have associated urls, and it would be nice 
> to have the ability to directly open the relevant page from within R.

I don't know what you mean by "associated".  If you just want to open a 
URL in a web browser from R, see ?browseURL, the help.start function 
uses this. Of course, help.search("browser") would have led you there.

HTH,
Erik



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