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...same in both cases.) My current work-around is to enter debug(browseURL) - this function is called by help.start - and then to 'catch' the name of the url that is meant to be opened by stepping through the function until the final 'system' command and looking at the variable 'quotedURL'. I then open a new xterm and enter the open command with the value of quotedURL. Once this is done, I make sure I don't close the help window for the rest of my R session! I'm sure there must be a better way than this - perhaps somebody out there can help. Some other bits of info m...

...t a serious problem, but while trying to understand some difficulties that R had finding our copy of mozilla, I noticed that the browseURL() function defined in help.start.R includes the lines: system(paste(browser, remoteCmd, "2>&1 >/dev/null ||", browser, quotedUrl, "&")) I assume the intent is to hide the "No running window found" or equivalent message that the remoteCmd might print before trying to start a new instance of the browser. On the shells I've tried, though, you need to reverse the order of the redirections to achiev...