[R-SIG-Mac] shell.exe() equivalent?

[Gi-Mick Wu]

Thanks everyone!

Of course it had to be simple.

Someday, I may get rid of the annoying point & click; for now I'm recovering from Windows.

Cheers,
Mick

On 2010-03-24, at 5:50 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

> 
> On 25/03/2010, at 1:48 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>> Note that Mac OSX is really Unix (with an annoying point-and-click veneer
>>> pasted on top of it) so you don't need to mess around with this ``open''
>>> nonsense.  Just make ``filename'' executable.  Then you can do
>>> 
>>>> system(filename)
>>> 
>>> Or if ``filename'' is not executable and you don't want to bother making
>>> it so, do
>>> 
>>>> system(paste("source",filename))
>> 
>> So you are claiming that if I make a PDF file executable, executing
>> the file will open it up in a pdf viewer.  Interesting.
> 
> No, I am obviously not claiming that at all.  You are just being
> silly/deliberately obtuse.
> 
> 	cheers,
> 
> 		Rolf Turner
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