[R] opening an external file

Applejus ielkhoury at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 00:20:55 CEST 2008


Thank you prof,

Answered by the author of the function in question! :) Who could ask for
more? 

Imad.


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> 
>> See ?browseURL
> 
> Or more generally on Windows, ?shell.exec (which is what browseURL does by 
> default on Windows).
> 
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Applejus <ielkhoury at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to launch a file from an R command?
>>> To be more precise: I am using windows, and I have an html file in the
>>> working directory of R, and I would like my code in R to automatically
>>> launch the html file in the browser (that is, open the file). Basically,
>>> i
>>> would like to simulate a user double-clicking on the html file to open
>>> it
>>> in
>>> a browser...
>>>
>>> Thanks
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>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Henrique Dallazuanna
>> Curitiba-Paran?-Brasil
>> 25? 25' 40" S 49? 16' 22" O
>>
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>>
> 
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