On 14 September 2011 at 16:22, Simon Urbanek wrote: | | On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Brian Oney wrote: | | > Hi there, | > new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). | > What does this do on linux? | > | > getOption("pdfviewer") | > ### I got this idea from: getS3method("print","vignette") | > | | It gives you the detected PDF viewer as I was explaining (essentially R_PDFVIEWER). The two detected settings I was referring to are R_PDFVIEWER (for PDF) and R_BROWSER (for URLs) which are the initial settings for the "pdfviewer" and "browser" options. | | Note that it's what it say it is - R_PDFVIEWER is usually something like acroread or evince so not particularly useful for your purpose ...
R> getOption("pdfviewer") [1] "/usr/bin/xdg-open" R> We've had that as xdg-open in Debian / Ubuntu for a while now... Dirk -- New Rcpp master class for R and C++ integration is scheduled for San Francisco (Oct 8), more details / reg.info available at http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/training/public/rcpp-master-class.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel