On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote:
On 05.12.2009, at 23:14, David Winsemius wrote:
It's configured by your system's default::
> options()$browser
[1] "/usr/bin/open"
You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote:
Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help
browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.
Neither of these works:
options(browser="/Applications/Firefox\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox")
?table # opens R.app internal browser
options(browser="/Applications/Firefox\ 2.app")
?table # still opens R.app internal browser
My apologies. The options()$browser setting handles the application
that is dispatched by RSiteSearch. I did not understand what your
arguments were doing. After reading the man page for "open" I tried
using the -a argument and it seems to work. This demonstrates a
successful switch between Safari and Firefox for that purpose (but not
for your request):
> options(browser="/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Safari.app")
> help(str)
> RSiteSearch("splines")
A search query has been submitted to http://search.r-project.org
The results page should open in your browser shortly
> options(browser="/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Firefox.app")
> RSiteSearch("splines")
A search query has been submitted to http://search.r-project.org
The results page should open in your browser shortly
See also:
?help.start
You can browse the contents of help packages using your specified
browser with :
> help.start(update = TRUE, gui = "irrelevant",
+ browser = getOption("browser"), remote = NULL)
Making packages.html . done
If '/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Firefox.app' is already running, it
is *not* restarted, and you
must switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...
But it does not seem to affect what application handles help() requests.
--
David.
Sören
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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