Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Brian Oney wrote: Hi Steve, a quick look at browseURL will tell you that indeed system or shell.exec (on a windows platform) is used to open up a URL. The open part of the proposed function was written to work on a

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 14.09.2011 22:15, Brian Oney wrote: Hi there, new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). What does this do on linux? getOption(pdfviewer) ### I got this idea from: getS3method(print,vignette) On windows, (an advantage...) somebody wrote a

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-09-15 4:27 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 14.09.2011 22:15, Brian Oney wrote: Hi there, new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). What does this do on linux? getOption(pdfviewer) ### I got this idea from: getS3method(print,vignette) On

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen Weston
2011/9/14 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: On 14.09.2011 12:27, Brian Oney wrote: Hi List, I hope this is correct list to propose function extensions, sorry if not. I am preparing for a (hopefully painless) migration to linux. As far as I am aware of, the function shell.exec

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 September 2011 at 16:56, Simon Urbanek wrote: | | On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | On 14 September 2011 at 16:22, Simon Urbanek wrote: | | | | On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Brian Oney wrote: | | | | Hi there, | | new idea (at 10 at night). All the

[Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Oney
Hi List, I hope this is correct list to propose function extensions, sorry if not. I am preparing for a (hopefully painless) migration to linux. As far as I am aware of, the function shell.exec only comes with the windows version. I think this is a handy little function and would like to see

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 14.09.2011 12:27, Brian Oney wrote: Hi List, I hope this is correct list to propose function extensions, sorry if not. I am preparing for a (hopefully painless) migration to linux. As far as I am aware of, the function shell.exec only comes with the windows version. I think this is a handy

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Oney
Hi Steve, a quick look at browseURL will tell you that indeed system or shell.exec (on a windows platform) is used to open up a URL. The open part of the proposed function was written to work on a Mac. Because Mac is a unix platform, I assumed that the function open would be omnipresent on

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Brian Oney wrote: Hi Steve, a quick look at browseURL will tell you that indeed system or shell.exec (on a windows platform) is used to open up a URL. The open part of the proposed function was written to work on a Mac. Because Mac is a unix platform, I

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Brian Oney wrote: Hi Steve, a quick look at browseURL will tell you that indeed system or shell.exec (on a windows platform) is used to open up a URL. The open part of the

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Oney
Hi there, new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). What does this do on linux? getOption(pdfviewer) ### I got this idea from: getS3method(print,vignette) On windows, (an advantage...) somebody wrote a little program open.exe that comes

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Brian Oney wrote: Hi there, new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). What does this do on linux? getOption(pdfviewer) ### I got this idea from: getS3method(print,vignette) It gives you the detected PDF

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 September 2011 at 16:22, Simon Urbanek wrote: | | On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Brian Oney wrote: | | Hi there, | new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). | What does this do on linux? | | getOption(pdfviewer) | ### I got this

Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 14 September 2011 at 16:22, Simon Urbanek wrote: | | On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Brian Oney wrote: | | Hi there, | new idea (at 10 at night). All the emails keep me thinking (btw thanks for all the feedback). | What does