On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote:
>>>> Dear R.app developers
>>>> Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to
>>>> an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this is an improvement, but it's easy to do:
>>
>> Thank you, Duncan. I think it could be an improvement on my system because
>> the R Rd browser fails to link to follow external URL's in the most recent
>> MacOS incarnation. You can copy and paste to a browser, but you get failure
>> and sometimes you get freezes.
>
> For instance when I just clicked in an R browser window that linked to your
> document "Parsing Rd files.pdf" the window fills with the first page of the
> pdf, but the spinning pinwheel-of-death appears and will not resolve. This is
> fairly predictable, so fortunately I had saved my work before doing this, so
> I would be able to recreate my intermediate results after a force-quit.
>
It would be to everyone's benefit if you would, please, report this properly -
including how you got to the page with the link. Then I can actually look into
that ...
Thanks,
Simon
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 1. Create your own "print.help_files_with_topic" function, copied from the
>>> private one in utils:
>>>
>>> print.help_files_with_topic <- utils:::print.help_files_with_topic
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Edit it so it doesn't replace the browser when .Platform$GUI == "AQUA"
>>> && type == "html".
>>>
>>> That's it --- now it will respect your choice of getOption("browser").
>>
>> Works for me. Thanks for the advice.
>>
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Heritage Laboratories
>> West Hartford, CT
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