browseURL("https://til.cardioid.co.nz/posts/open-files-from-r.html")
browseURL("path/to/your/file.csv")Opening external files from R
Go on, have a browse
R
Sometimes you want to check out a link that you generate in an R script, or perhaps open a table of outputs that you’ve just saved as a csv.
It’s as simple as passing the URL or file path to browseURL, eg:
They will open in your default for each filetype - URLs in the browser and csv files (for example) in Excel.
I find this particularly useful as the last step in a script.