file.edit               package:utils               R Documentation

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.

See Also:

     'files', 'file.show', 'edit', 'fix',

Examples:

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

