[R] Opening a web browser from R?

[J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk]

Fantastic! That's perfect.

how didn't I find that???

Thank you!

Jose


Quoting Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com>:

> Use browseURL:
>
> browseURL('about:blank')
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:55 AM,  <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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Dr. Jose I. de las Heras                      Email: J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology    Phone: +44 (0)131 6513374
Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology        Fax:   +44 (0)131 6507360
Swann Building, Mayfield Road
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH9 3JR
UK

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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.