R: Edit One or More Files

file.edit {utils}

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Edit One or More Files

Description

Edit one or more files in a text editor.

Usage

file.edit(..., title = file, editor = getOption("editor"))

Arguments

`...`	one or more character vectors containing the names of the files to be edited.
`title`	the title to use in the editor; defaults to the filename.
`editor`	the text editor to be used.

Details

Path expansion (see path.expand will be done on names.

The behaviour of this function is very system dependent. Currently files can be opened only one at a time on Unix; on Windows, the internal editor allows multiple files to be opened, but has a limit of 50 simultaneous edit windows.

The title argument is used for the window caption in Windows, and is ignored on other platforms.

Examples

## Not run: 
# open two R scripts for editing
file.edit("script1.R", "script2.R")
## End(Not run)