Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Oney
Simon Urbanek wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Brian Oney wrote: Hi Steve, a quick look at "browseURL" will tell you that indeed "system" or "shell.exec&

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Oney
sumed that the function "open" would be omnipresent on unix platforms, my mistake. Well I guess, we know how to make to work on a mac. I will make the transition to Linux and get back to this in a while, ok? Cheers, Brian On 9/14/2011 2:50 PM, Stephen Weston wrote: 2011/9/14 Uwe Ligges:

[Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Oney
Hi List, I hope this is correct list to propose function extensions, sorry if not. I am preparing for a (hopefully painless) migration to linux. As far as I am aware of, the function "shell.exec" only comes with the windows version. I think this is a handy little function and would like to see