[R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

Soeren.Vogel at eawag.ch Soeren.Vogel at eawag.ch
Sat Dec 5 23:21:55 CET 2009


On 05.12.2009, at 23:14, David Winsemius wrote:

> It's configured by your system's default::
>
> > options()$browser
> [1] "/usr/bin/open"
>
> You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Soeren.Vogel at eawag.ch wrote:
>
>> Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help  
>> browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.

Neither of these works:

options(browser="/Applications/Firefox\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox")
?table # opens R.app internal browser
options(browser="/Applications/Firefox\ 2.app")
?table # still opens R.app internal browser

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