devtools:::email fails under RStudio on macosx

[jefferis]

The email() function called by release() fails silently under Rstudio on mac. This happens because

# regular R mac gui
> options('browser')
$browser
[1] "/usr/bin/open"

# rstudio
> options('browser')
$browser
function (url) 
{
    .Call("rs_browseURL", url)
}
<environment: 0x1020ca470>

I guess one possible fix would be to temporarily override the browser option inside email() with "/usr/bin/open" on mac.

https://github.com/hadley/devtools/blob/21cc4a6689bce3531daa3e295cf676a035af769c/R/release.r#L148-L159

[hadley]

@jjallaire is there a way to find out the default value of getOption("browser") before it's overridden by Rstudio?

[jjallaire]

No there isn't currently a way to do this. You could just take the default
for each platform as observed in a vanilla version of R (it's highly
doubtful that users are overriding "browser" and even if they are email
from devtools is such as specialized case that using the base R default
isn't likely to be objectionable)

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Hadley Wickham
notifications@github.comwrote:

@jjallaire https://github.com/jjallaire is there a way to find out the
default value of getOption("browser") before it's overridden by Rstudio?

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[hadley]

@jjallaire not high priority, but could rstudio learn to pass through unrecognised url schemes?

[krlmlr]

Same on Ubuntu.

[hadley]

And it looks like it's NULL on windows