This function eventually uses system. So I decided to see if I could get this to work by hand using the code from browseURL
> cmd
[1] "\"C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe\" http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdigrun1;restrict=Rhelp00/archive|Rhelp01/archive|Rhelp02a/archive;format=builtin-long;sort=score;words=Ripley;matchesperpage=10"
> system(cmd, wait = FALSE)
Works as expected since it does anyway. I make the assumption that I at least have the code correct.
> cmd
[1] "\"C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe\" http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdigrun1;restrict=Rhelp00/archive|Rhelp01/archive|Rhelp02a/archive;format=builtin-long;sort=score;words=Ripley;matchesperpage=10"
> system(cmd, wait = FALSE)
Falls over as previously described
I then thought that maybe quoting the search term would work, but this appears not to be the case.
As is noted in ?system "The command is run directly as a Windows command by the Windows API call 'CreateProcess'" Who knows what goes on in these processes. This is as far as I can go. It looks as if the API connection between system and Mozilla does not function the same way as with IE, and it is not obvious to me where the problem might be.
Tom Mulholland
R R version 2.0.1, 2004-11-15 OS.type windows GUI Rgui
Andy Bunn wrote:
Using this function with 2.0.0 XP and Firefox 1.0 (I've rediscovered the internet) produces a curious result.
myString <- RSiteSearch(string = 'Ripley') myString
[1] "http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdigrun1;restrict=Rhe lp00/archive|Rhelp01/archive|Rhelp02a/archive;format=builtin-long;sort=score ;words=Ripley;matchesperpage=10"
version
_ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 0.0 year 2004 month 10 day 04 language R
If no browser is open, then this is the URL that is browsed in Firefox: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdigrun1;restrict=Rhel p00/archive
Oddly, these two other windows are opened too: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp01/archive/1000.html
and: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17461.html
This happens regardless of what the search string is. If a browser window is open then everything works as planned. The sticky bit, obviously, is parsing browseURL which has the same behavior if I try:
browseURL(myString)
However, the searches:
RSiteSearch(string = 'browseURL Firefox') RSiteSearch(string = 'browseURL Mozilla')
don't turn up much help! If I change browseURL to use IE then browseURL behaves as expected:
browseURL(myString, browser="C:/Program Files/Internet
Explorer/iexplore.exe")
Specifying Firefox explicitly in browseURL doesn't help - It still opens three windows as above (if no browser is open):
browseURL(myString, browser="C:/Program Files/Mozilla
Firefox/firefox.exe")
So, under Windows the 'NULL' argument in 'browser' which determines the browser via file association isn't the problem.
Anybody know how I can make Firefox work a little more smoothly?
Thanks, Andy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] an R function to search on Prof. Baron's site
Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw <at> merck.com> writes:
: : Inspired by the functions that Barry Rawlingson and Dave Forrest posted for : searching Rwiki and R-help archive, I've made up a function that does the : search on Prof. Baron's site (Thanks to Prof. Baron's help on setting up the : query string!):
It would be nice if this and the other search functions recently posted were collected into a package or even integrated into R itself. In the case of the Windows Rgui, it would be nice if they appeared on a menu with the other search and help functions.
______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
