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Default broswer for OS X (PR#2725)

3 messages · james@freelancepropaganda.com, stefano iacus, Kurt Hornik

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james@freelancepropaganda.com
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Full_Name: James Howison
Version: 1.6.2
OS: OS X (fink install)
Submission from: (NULL) (66.67.80.30)


The default browser for the html help system is not set correctly for OS X.

This makes the html help work great on OS X:
"open" is an OS X launcher app that inspects a file and launches it with the
appropriate application (it is the same as double clicking).  It launches in the
system preferred browser - which is great - integration with the OS for free :)

Perhaps this could be added to the darwin.hints file (if such a thing is used
for R) or otherwise added in so that it is the default.

The user-experience is definately increased by being able to read the help at
the same time one uses it :)

I've promoted the packager for the OS X fink package to set this as the default
in the build if that is possible.
1 day later
stefano iacus
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This could be nice for the vignettes too.
stefano

On Venerd?, apr 4, 2003, at 06:04 Europe/Rome,
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I am not sure if the original message is a bug report or a feature
request for a certain binary distribution?

Configure currently checks for R_BROWSER being set and then for

  netscape mozilla galeon kfmclient opera gnome-moz-remote open

in that order.  One could special-case the order for OSX but as it is
trivial to change things at both configure and run time ...

-k