defaultApp: defaultApp

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defaultApp

Description

Tries to open the given file with the default application of the operating system using base::system2(). Only Windows (windows), macOS (darwin), Linux (linux) and FreeBSD (freebsd) is supported.

Usage

defaultApp(file, wait = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

file	character: file name
wait	logical: indicates whether the R interpreter should wait for the command to finish, or run it asynchronously (default: FALSE)
...	further arguments passed to system2

Value

Result of try(system2, ...), invisibly

See Also

berryFunctions::openFile()

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  ghget()
  defaultApp(ghlist("dataanalysis.pdf", full.names = TRUE))
}

mmstat4 documentation built on May 29, 2024, 11:15 a.m.