[R] opening an external file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:

> See ?browseURL

Or more generally on Windows, ?shell.exec (which is what browseURL does by 
default on Windows).

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> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Applejus <ielkhoury at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to launch a file from an R command?
>> To be more precise: I am using windows, and I have an html file in the
>> working directory of R, and I would like my code in R to automatically
>> launch the html file in the browser (that is, open the file). Basically, i
>> would like to simulate a user double-clicking on the html file to open it
>> in
>> a browser...
>>
>> Thanks
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> Henrique Dallazuanna
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