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Message-ID: <322A427C-4B67-4C02-A4DF-AA43EECDBB00@gmx.ch>
Date: 2009-12-05T22:23:18Z
From: soeren.vogel at gmx.ch
Subject: R.app feature request
In-Reply-To: <7BA8DFB5-8073-4576-B596-D3B7CE61D943@eawag.ch>

On 05.12.2009, at 23:21, soeren.vogel at eawag.ch wrote:

> On 05.12.2009, at 23:14, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>> It's configured by your system's default::
>>
>> > options()$browser
>> [1] "/usr/bin/open"
>>
>> You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Soeren.Vogel at eawag.ch wrote:
>>
>>> Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help  
>>> browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.
>
> Neither of these works:
>
> options(browser="/Applications/Firefox\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox")
> ?table # opens R.app internal browser
> options(browser="/Applications/Firefox\ 2.app")
> ?table # still opens R.app internal browser

Sorry, forgot:

 > version
                _
platform       x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
arch           x86_64
os             darwin9.8.0
system         x86_64, darwin9.8.0
status
major          2
minor          10.0
year           2009
month          10
day            26
svn rev        50208
language       R
version.string R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)