Thanks... I finally used BrowseURL(), which is how Rcmdr does this... it starts firefox and things are ok...
Thanks Hao Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Hao Liu wrote: > >> Dear All: >> >> I currently have a TK window start a acroread window: However, when >> the acroread window is open, I can't get back to the TK window unless >> I close the acroead. >> >> I invoked the acroread window using: system(paste("acroread ",file, >> sep="")) >> >> anything I can do to make them both available to users? >> > > Tell system() not to _wait_ for command to complete. > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.