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

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> 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.

For instance when I just clicked in an R browser window that linked to  
your document "Parsing Rd files.pdf" the window fills with the first  
page of the pdf, but the spinning pinwheel-of-death appears and will  
not resolve. This is fairly predictable, so fortunately I had saved my  
work before doing this, so I would be able to recreate my intermediate  
results after a force-quit.

>
>
>>
>> 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
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT