browseURL                package:base                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Load a given URL into a WWW browser.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     browseURL(url, browser = getOption("browser"))

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

     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. 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     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.

