[R] Opening a web browser from R?

[Christos Hatzis]

Jose,

I think shell.exec should do what you want:

shell.exec("http://www.yahoo.com")

-Christos 

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there's a way in R to open a web browser 
> (such as Internet Explorer, or Firefox or whatever).
> I'm doing some analyses that have associated urls, and it 
> would be nice to have the ability to directly open the 
> relevant page from within R.
> I was looking at the help for 'url' and I can see I can 
> probably access the information I need and display it in my 
> own way, but can I somehow just open the given url with my 
> web browser of choice?
> 
> many thanks for any help,
> 
> Jose
> 
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