R: Launch web browser

Question

Is there a way to launch internet explorer with a given URL in R? I want to scrape web pages in order to extract certain values, but I want to open the web pages themselves just so I can step through each one to make sure the data seems right.

Answer 1

Here you go:

browseURL("https://www.r-project.org")

If you need it, browseURL() also takes an argument browser= that lets you specify the name or path of the program to be used as a browser.

Answer 2

Maybe something like:

system("iexplore.exe http://www.foo.bar/eggs.html")

Could work under windows.