[R-SIG-Mac]options(browser=?) on MAC OS X 10.2.x

[Jan de Leeuw]

But you are right, help(diag) then just opens another browser window
with the same index.html. I will try dillo, galeon, and mozilla for
gtk, which are all in fink (just link them to /usr/local/bin/netscape).

On Sunday, Mar 9, 2003, at 17:58 US/Pacific, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> I have a script /usr/local/bin/netscape which contains
>
> #!/bin/sh
> open -a Safari /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
>
> No need to do anything with options(), just uses the
> default.
>
> --- Jan
>
> On Sunday, Mar 9, 2003, at 16:57 US/Pacific, rob wrote:
>
>> Just installed R (1.6.2 and 1.7.0-pre) on my powerbook. Not sure if  
>> there is
>> a FAQ list, but I have troubles configuring help.start().
>>
>> Right now I have specified:
>>
>> > options(browser="open /Applications/Netscape/Netscape.app")
>>
>> That does not work well (it does start a browser, Safari, Netscape
>> or IE, dependent on the browser string), but does not respond to
>> say help(diag) after help.start().
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
>>
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Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
   
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