Is it possible to open a specific file in the HTML browser like help(htmlhelp=TRUE) does?
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Dear all/anyone, after generating a HTML file "result.html" from within [R], I would like to open the default HTML browser (like help.start() does) to show the file. Is it possible to do this (without trying to do a system dependent search for possible browsers)? I browsed the source of package 'base' (R v1.4.1 WinMe) and I found the following in help():
(Browsing the help files might be more use.)
.Internal(show.help.item(file, 1, "")) but I couldn't get it to load "result.html", which is in the current directory and also, since it is not documented I don't know if this is a cross-platform function or even safe to use.
In Windows, use shell.exec("result.html"), which is documented. (It looks
like `file' needs to be an absolute path, e.g. "c:/R/result.html".)
There is no cross-platform way that we know of. On Unix help.start uses a
system() call to launch netscape.
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