A.16 library(www_browser): Activating your Web-browser

This library deals with the very system-dependent task of opening a web page in a browser. See also library(url) and the HTTP package.

www_open_url(+URL)
Open URL in an external web browser. The reason to place this in the library is to centralise the maintenance on this highly platform- and browser-specific task. It distinguishes between the following cases: