How to correctly set up a browser on Mac?
Dear Hans-J?rg, many thanks for helping, that perfectly solved it! Cheers, Marius
On 2012-02-28, at 15:18 , Hans-J?rg Bibiko wrote:
Hmm,
if I set:
options(browser="/usr/bin/open -a 'Google Chrome'")
then
help.start()
launches Chrome and shows the R Help index page and
browseURL("http://www.r-project.org")
will open the URL http://www.r-project.org in Chrome
with:
sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.14.0 on MacOSX 10.6.8 and Chrome is not my default browser. Best, --Hans ********************************************************** Hans-Joerg Bibiko Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics Deutscher Platz 6 phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 341 D-04103 Leipzig fax: +49 (0) 341 3550 333 Germany e-mail: bibiko[AT]eva.mpg.de **********************************************************