From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Wed Mar 22 16:43:09 2000
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:43:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] help system does not work (PR#499)
In-Reply-To: <200003221627.RAA13198@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003220832480.28978-100000@mail.biostat.washington.edu>

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 jgm@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, is there some way I can change the command that R is
> issuing? That way, I could point it directly to a particular executable (I
> have several netscapes).  Also, I would like to experiment with having it
> fire up lynx in an xterm rather than netscape, if that is possible.

options(browser="browser")

However, to start in a xterm you need to be a bit clever. The browser is
invoked as
 
browser URL &

and you will probably need a script to set up lynx in a xterm in such a
way that it opens the file and stays open. The first four things I tried
didn't work.


Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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[Rd] help system does not work (PR#499)
Thomas Lumley