From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Aug  7 18:14:26 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:14:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Next release of R, August 31st
In-Reply-To: <3B701FD7.3693B5CC@umsanet.edu.bo>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0108071809150.13622-100000@toucan.stats>

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:

>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:
> >
> > > Hola!
> > >
> > > A problem I have had for some versions now: When using R html help,
> > > different browsers are started on different machines. On one machine, it
> > > starts the opera browser, where html search not functions.
> >
> > (Should do if Java support is installed: did when I tested.)
>
> 	Ill try again
> >
> > On my home
> > > machine (with a new version of win98), it insists on starting M$
> > > internet
> > > explorer, even though netscape is defined as default (when cliking on
> > > the relevant help files in "explorador de windows", netscape opens).
>
> On that macvhine, the file associations is set to netscape, and all
> other ways to open a browser opens netscape, but R insists on
> opening M$ internet explorer.

R knows absolutely nothing about this `M$ internet explorer'. It calls
the Windows API call ShellExecute(). Looks like your machine has a corrupt
Registry.

As I said before, R calls the official Windows API call and what happens
then is not our responsibility.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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[Rd] Next release of R, August 31st
Prof Brian Ripley