[R-SIG-Mac]How to start browser from within R

[Wiener, Matthew]

What I've done is simply drag index.html to the doc.  Click the icon, and
the browser starts.

This doesn't open it from within R, but it gets the documentation up, and
I've found it very convenient.

To keep it from looking like just another web page in the doc, I downloaded
the R logo from CRAN and replaced the generic icon with the R logo. 

Hope this helps.

Matthew Wiener
Applied Computer Science and Mathematics Department
Merck Research Labs
Rahway, NJ  07065-0900
732-594-5303


-----Original Message-----
From: Jun Tan [mailto:jtan@student.stat.wvu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:08 AM
To: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac]How to start browser from within R


Hello, Everyone:
I downloaded a R for MacOSX(Darwin/X11). Everythin works well except the
help system. I wanted to show the help information in a browser and I knew
that the command "open" can be used to start the browser. However when I
tried to start browser in R, nothing happened. The command I used was:
system("open $HOME/.R/doc/html/index.html")
Is there anyone can give me some advices? Thanks.

JunTan

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