On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: >> you could use the Sweave like macro to compute the path inside the Rd >> environments >> >> \Sexpr{file.path(system.file(package="AlgDesign", "doc"), >> "AlgDesign.pdf")} >> >> described in 'Writing R extensions' 2.11 >> >> <http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/doc/manual/R-exts.html#Dynamic-pages> > > > That won't work with dynamic help. (It surprised me, too.) You can't link > to the file system from within the dynamic help pages. You can't link to a > file:// link, which is what you'd need to get that to work. > > This is a browser restriction, for security reasons. You don't want
I am able to read files from my file system from the browser. For example enter this into the Windows command line: echo some dummy text > dummy.html echo "<a href=dummy.html>dummy</a>" > test-read-file.html test-read-file.html and click on dummy when the contents of test-read-file.html appears in the browser. For me, it causes the contents of the dummy.html file to appear in the browser. I am on Windows Vista and I tried it in IE8, Firefox 3.5.5 and Chrome 3.0 and it worked in all three. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel