R help - Mar 2022 - Can browseURL open a lynx browser?

Dear Sir,
> You mention reading the ?browseURL help page, but seem to make no reference
to the available options for invoking the browser of your choice. If the browser
you choose isn't behaving when you do this, then isn't this a question
for a forum related to that browser?
OK.

Thank you,
Ashim

Dear Ashim,

If you really want to use lynx, then you need to open up a new terminal to make
this work. For example, this will do:

browseURL("http://www.r-project.org","xterm -e lynx")

But this will open up a new terminal for each call to browseURL().

Best,
Wolfgang
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ashim
Kapoor
>Sent: Sunday, 20 March, 2022 10:42
>To: Jeff Newmiller
>Cc: R Help
>Subject: Re: [R] Can browseURL open a lynx browser?
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>> You mention reading the ?browseURL help page, but seem to make no
reference to
>the available options for invoking the browser of your choice. If the
browser you
>choose isn't behaving when you do this, then isn't this a question
for a forum
>related to that browser?
>
>OK.
>
>Thank you,
>Ashim