file.edit {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)

[Package utils version 2.8.1 Index]