From jorgnsn at lcd.uregina.ca  Fri Jan 12 22:52:27 2007
From: jorgnsn at lcd.uregina.ca (jorgnsn at lcd.uregina.ca)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:52:27 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] help.start()'s error redirection fails to hide mozilla's "No
	running window found" message (PR#9452)
Message-ID: <20070112215227.0A23D19A5F@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: John Jorgensen
Version: 2.4.0
OS: Solaris 9
Submission from: (NULL) (142.3.169.170)


This is not a serious problem, but while trying to understand some difficulties
that R had finding our copy of mozilla, I noticed that the browseURL() function
defined in help.start.R includes the lines:

    system(paste(browser, remoteCmd, "2>&1 >/dev/null ||",
                 browser, quotedUrl, "&"))

I assume the intent is to hide the "No running window found" or equivalent
message that the remoteCmd might print before trying to start a new instance of
the browser.  On  the shells I've tried, though, you need to reverse the order
of the redirections to achieve this, i.e.:  ">dev/null 2>&1" instead of "2>&1
>/dev/null".

Apologies if I've misunderstood your intent, or if there are other shells where
you need the order you've used.



[Rd] help.start()'s error redirection fails to hide mozilla's "No running window found" message (PR#9452)
jorgnsn at lcd.uregina.ca