RStudio overrides the default behaviour of browseURL on some platforms, meaning that local files are not opened as file:///... URLs but as http://localhost.... This can break some local HTML files that are expecting to be served as file:/// URLs.
Usage
browseFile(url, browser = getOption("browser"), encodeIfNeeded = FALSE)Arguments
- url
string: as for
utils::browseURL()- browser
string: as for
utils::browseURL()- encodeIfNeeded
logical: as for
utils::browseURL()
Examples
myfile <- tempfile(fileext = ".html")
cat("<h1>Hello!</h1>", file = myfile)
## in RStudio on Linux, this will be opened as a http://localhost URL
if (interactive()) browseURL(myfile)
## but this shouldn't
browseFile(myfile)