On 14 September 2011 at 16:22, Simon Urbanek wrote:
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| On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Brian Oney wrote:
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| > Hi there,
| > new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for
all the feedback).
| > What does this do on linux?
| >
| > getOption("pdfviewer")
| > ### I got this idea from: getS3method("print","vignette")
| >
|
| It gives you the detected PDF viewer as I was explaining (essentially
R_PDFVIEWER). The two detected settings I was referring to are R_PDFVIEWER (for
PDF) and R_BROWSER (for URLs) which are the initial settings for the
"pdfviewer" and "browser" options.
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| Note that it's what it say it is - R_PDFVIEWER is usually something like
acroread or evince so not particularly useful for your purpose ...
R> getOption("pdfviewer")
[1] "/usr/bin/xdg-open"
R>
We've had that as xdg-open in Debian / Ubuntu for a while now...
Dirk
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