browseURL
Displays the contents of a URL in a Web Browser

Description

Displays in a web browser the contents found at a URL or the contents of a file or folder.

Usage

browseURL(url, browser = getOption("browser"), encodeIfNeeded = FALSE)

Arguments

url a character string. Usually it is a file path or a URL. Cannot be empty.
browser the browser location. Must be either a character string, a function, or (on Windows only) NULL.

encodeIfNeeded a logical flag: If TRUE, encode url. The default is FALSE.

Details

Opens the specified browser or the default browser and displays the specified URL.
Value
Differences between Spotfire Enterprise Runtime for R and Open-source R
In open-source R, when browser is not NULL, the function "browseURL" fails to run.
See Also
URLencode, system
Examples
## Not run: 
browseURL("http://www.tibco.com/")
browseURL("http://www.tibco.com/", encodeIfNeeded=TRUE)

tfile <- tempfile() cat("Example from browseURL help file\n", file=tfile) ret <- browseURL(paste0("file://", tfile)) ret ## 0 ## End(Not run)

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