On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > "Walter R. Paczkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Good morning, >> >> Is it possible to open an html file using IE but from within R? I >> wrote a small function to generate tables in html but I'd like to >> write another function to call IE and open the html file. > > browseURL() (if it exists on Windows)
It does. And more generally for any file type, shell.exec (only on Windows) opens a file with the associated application. (browseURL is built on top of shell.exec.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html