[R] Opening a web browser from R?

[James W. MacDonald]

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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 was looking at the help for 'url' and I can see I can probably access 
> the information I need and display it in my own way, but can I somehow 
> just open the given url with my web browser of choice?
> 
> many thanks for any help,
> 
> Jose
> 
> 

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