| browseURL {utils} | R Documentation |
Load a given URL into a WWW browser.
browseURL(url, browser = getOption("browser"))
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. |
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), 7.1, Opera 5/6, Mozilla >= 0.9.5
and Mozilla Firefox),
Galeon, KDE konqueror (via kfmclient) and the GNOME interface to
Mozilla. Netscape 7.0 and Opera 7 behave slightly differently,
and you will need
to open them first. Note that the type of browser is determined from
its name, so this mechanism will only be used if the browser is
installed under its canonical name.
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 from a
remote host.