opening-webpages-in-jupyter-notebook.ipynb

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   "source": [
    "Make a local HTML file and verify that it exists."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "download.file(\"https://duckduckgo.com\", \"ddg.html\")\n",
    "file.exists(\"ddg.html\")"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Try opening it using the standard `browseURL()` approach. This works in a local Jupyter notebook, but not in Colab."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": true
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   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "browseURL(\"ddg.html\")"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Try again using `system2()`. This also works locally but not in Colab."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": true
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "system2(\"open\", \"ddg.html\")"
   ]
  }
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