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

[Jan de Leeuw]

The problem is that there is currently no decent browser available for 
Darwin.
I have tried XMosaic, Dillo, Amaya, and Mozilla; but there are various
problems with each of them. So help.start() does not work. Opening a 
browser
on the Aqua desktop does not work either -- what does work is

system("dillo /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html &")

if you have dillo installed (on the X desktop).,

You can get dillo from fink.

On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 07:07 AM, Jun Tan wrote:

> 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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