Message-ID: <A82E3876-0EAF-47EB-A3C8-1A555EADBD0F@r-project.org>
Date: 2009-12-05T23:52:31Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: R.app feature request
In-Reply-To: <15973D75-D02A-44CB-860B-180E485B8A36@comcast.net>
On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:48, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, Soeren.Vogel at eawag.ch wrote:
>>> Dear R.app developers
>>> Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help
>>> browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.
>>
>> I'm not sure this is an improvement, but it's easy to do:
>
> Thank you, Duncan. I think it could be an improvement on my system
> because the R Rd browser fails to link to follow external URL's in
> the most recent MacOS incarnation. You can copy and paste to a
> browser, but you get failure and sometimes you get freezes.
>
We would appreciate if you could report that, otherwise it cannot be
fixed.
Thanks,
Simon
Sent from my iPhone
>
>>
>> 1. Create your own "print.help_files_with_topic" function, copied
>> from the private one in utils:
>>
>> print.help_files_with_topic <- utils:::print.help_files_with_topic
>
>>
>> 2. Edit it so it doesn't replace the browser when .Platform$GUI ==
>> "AQUA" && type == "html".
>>
>> That's it --- now it will respect your choice of getOption
>> ("browser").
>
> Works for me. Thanks for the advice.
>
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>
> --
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>
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