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

[Marius Hofert]

Dear Hans-Jörg,

many thanks for helping, that perfectly solved it!

Cheers,

Marius

On 2012-02-28, at 15:18 , Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:

> 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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