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.

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