[R] How to call an external program/web page under R for Mac OS?

[Gustavo Carvalho]

To open a website on the default browser:

system("open http://www.google.com")

Gustavo.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM, jbrezmes <jesus.brezmes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to call external programs such as Java scripts (*.jar
> files) or bring up the browser to a given direction. Can that be done from
> R?
>
> I am running R on a mac OS X system.
>
> Thanks again for any suggestions or solutions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jesus Brezmes
>
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