[R] How to start default browser on R

David Scott d.scott at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Nov 23 05:00:36 CET 2010


  On 23/11/10 16:59, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Ista,
>
> I see.  Your advice works.  Thanks
>
> even without:
> browser="C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe")
>
> For non default browser it needs;
> browser="C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefoe/firefox.exe"
>
>
> What will be "file:" used for?
>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
You can use it to open a local file on your machine as well. I use this 
all the time with hwriter which writes html reports.

David Scott

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