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

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, Soeren.Vogel at eawag.ch wrote:
>> Dear R.app developers
>> Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help  
>> browser  to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.
>
> I'm not sure this is an improvement, but it's easy to do:

Thank you, Duncan. I think it could be an improvement on my system  
because the R Rd browser fails to link to follow external URL's in the  
most recent MacOS incarnation. You can copy and paste to a browser,  
but you get failure and sometimes you get freezes.


>
> 1.  Create your own "print.help_files_with_topic" function, copied  
> from the private one in utils:
>
> print.help_files_with_topic <- utils:::print.help_files_with_topic

>
> 2.  Edit it so it doesn't replace the browser when .Platform$GUI ==  
> "AQUA" && type == "html".
>
> That's it  ---  now it will respect your choice of  
> getOption("browser").

Works for me. Thanks for the advice.

>
> Duncan Murdoch



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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT