browseURL {utils} | R Documentation

## Load URL into a WWW Browser

### Description

Load a given URL into a WWW browser.

### Usage

    browseURL(url, browser = getOption("browser"))

### Arguments

`url` | a non-empty character string giving the URL to be loaded.
`browser` | a non-empty character string giving the name of the program to be used as hypertext browser. It should be in the PATH, or a full path specified. Under Windows `NULL` is also allowed (and is the default), and implies that the file association mechanism will be used.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    browseURL("http://www.r-project.org")
    browseURL("file://c|/R/R-2.3.0/doc/html/index.html",
              browser="C:/Program Files/Netscape/Netscape/netscp.exe")
    ## End(Not run)

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