On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Gi-Mick Wu wrote:
Thanks everyone!
Of course it had to be simple.
Someday, I may get rid of the annoying point & click; for now I'm
recovering from Windows.
Now _that_ is amusing. Windows is a (kludgy) imitation of the Mac GUI,
which in turn is a copy of the Xerox PARC Alto and Star systems, all
of which feature the mouse for user input.
Cheers,
Mick
On 2010-03-24, at 5:50 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 25/03/2010, at 1:48 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz
> wrote:
Note that Mac OSX is really Unix (with an annoying point-and-
click veneer
pasted on top of it) so you don't need to mess around with this
``open''
nonsense. Just make ``filename'' executable. Then you can do
system(filename)
Or if ``filename'' is not executable and you don't want to bother
making
it so, do
system(paste("source",filename))
So you are claiming that if I make a PDF file executable, executing
the file will open it up in a pdf viewer. Interesting.
No, I am obviously not claiming that at all. You are just being
silly/deliberately obtuse.
That is what Rolf implied. Agreed, it sounded a bit like arcanity or
perhaps nonsense. Using "source" on a pdf file? In any case, this is
another example of using system() to open a pdf file.
system("open /Users/davidwinsemius/Downloads/research-2004-05-ind-
life-rpt.pdf")
Kasper's solution also works _iff_ the filename object has been
previously defined.
--
David
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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