How to change default Browser for R

On Aug 4, 2018, at 2:41 AM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

In my Mac, I have 2 browsers installed :

Chrome (system default)
Google Chrome Canary

While for my regular browsing work I use Chrome, However for R I prefer to
use Canary (like, opening Help page). Is there any way to set Canary only
for R, however keeping system default unchanged.

Thanks for your feedback.

Hi,

There are several steps involved during R ?Startup that set system and session specific ?options.

In your ~/.Rprofile, for session specific settings, you can add something like the following:

  options(browser = "/usr/bin/open -a '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'")

replacing the Chrome binary filename above with the Canary name.

Be sure to exit your R session after setting the above, then start a new session to pick up the change.

The above works for me, to change the default from Safari to Chrome, just within my R session, without affecting the system default.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz