[R-SIG-Mac] How to correctly set up a browser on Mac?

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

Hmm,

if I set:

	options(browser="/usr/bin/open -a 'Google Chrome'")

then 

	help.start()

launches Chrome and shows the R Help index page and

	browseURL("http://www.r-project.org")

will open the URL http://www.r-project.org in Chrome

with:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.14.0

on MacOSX 10.6.8

and Chrome is not my default browser.

Best,
--Hans

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