| browseURL {base} | R Documentation |
Load URL into a WWW Browser
Description
Load a given URL into a WWW browser.
Usage
browseURL(url, browser = getOption("browser"))
Arguments
url |
a non-empty character string giving the URL to be loaded. |
browser |
a non-empty character string giving the name of the program to be used as hypertext browser. It should be in the PATH, or a full path specified. |
Details
If browser supports remote control and R knows how to perform
it, the URL is opened in any already running
browser or a new one if necessary. This mechanism currently is
available for browsers which support the "-remote openURL(...)"
interface (which includes Netscape 4.x, 6.2.x (but not 6.0/1),
Opera 5/6 and Mozilla >= 0.9.5), Galeon, KDE konqueror (via kfmclient)
and the GNOME interface to Mozilla. Netscape 7.0 behaves slightly
differently, and you will need to open it first.
Because "-remote" will use any browser displaying on the X
server (whatever machine it is running on), the remote control
mechanism is only used if DISPLAY points to the local host.
This may not allow displaying more than one URL at a time.