Thanks to everyone who replied to me, both on and off-list.
Indeed, searching for "url" alone finds 'browseURL' and the very
interesting 'shell.exec'... I must have had a "fuzzy moment" because I
did not see it when I first looked, but yes, there they are!
So, apologies for asking something that was so obvious... but somehow
I missed it the first time.
I'm off to get more coffee...
Thank you!
Jose
Quoting Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If this is Windows, see shell.exec. On any platform, see browseURL.
Does help.search("url") not get you there?
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there's a way in R to open a web browser (such
as Internet Explorer, or Firefox or whatever).
I'm doing some analyses that have associated urls, and it would be
nice to have the ability to directly open the relevant page from
within R.
I was looking at the help for 'url' and I can see I can probably
access the information I need and display it in my own way, but can
I somehow just open the given url with my web browser of choice?
many thanks for any help,
Jose
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