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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

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> On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
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>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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It would be to everyone's benefit if you would, please, report this properly - including how you got to the page with the link. Then I can actually look into that ...

Thanks,
Simon


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>>> 1.  Create your own "print.help_files_with_topic" function, copied from the private one in utils:
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>>> print.help_files_with_topic <- utils:::print.help_files_with_topic
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>>> 
>>> 2.  Edit it so it doesn't replace the browser when .Platform$GUI == "AQUA" && type == "html".
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>>> That's it  ---  now it will respect your choice of getOption("browser").
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>> Works for me. Thanks for the advice.
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>>> 
>>> 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
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