a character string containing the filename or the path
of the HTML file to be created.
dirname
an optional character string containing the path of the
directory where the file should be written.
title
an optional character string containing the title of the
HTML page.
link.javascript
an optional character vector containing the URL of Javascripts
to be associated with the page.
link.css
an optional character vector containing the URL of CSS stylesheets
to be associated with the page.
css
an optional character vector containing inline CSS stylesheets to be associated with the page.
head
an optional character string containing an HTML fragment
to be added in the <head> section of the page.
charset
an optional character string containing the current charset. Default is "utf-8".
lang
an optional character string containing the current
langage. Default is "en".
head.attributes
an optional named list of character strings,
containing the <head> attributes.
body.attributes
an optional named list of character strings,
containing the <body> attributes.
page
a page handle returned by a previous openPage
call.
splash
a logical, indicating whether the hwriter splash tag
'generated by...' should be written at the end of the page.
Details
openPage opens a new file for writing and returns a page handle
which is used by hwrite to append HTML elements in a current
page. Any previous existing file will be overwritten.
The argument head is useful to add extra HTML code in the <head> header code.
closePage ends the HTML page formatting, flushes the pending
writing operations and closes the file.
Value
A connection which is a handle to the current HTML page.
## Creates a new web page 'test.html' in the R temporary directory
tmpdir <- tempdir()
p <- openPage('test.html', dirname=tmpdir,
link.css='http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gpau/hwriter/hwriter.css')
hwrite('Iris example', p, center=TRUE, heading=1)
hwrite(paste('This famous (Fisher's or Anderson's) iris data set',
'gives the measurements in centimeters of the variables',
'sepal length and width and petal length and width, respectively,',
'for 50 flowers from each of 3 species of iris.'),
p, class='king')
hwrite(iris, p, row.bgcolor='#ffffaa')
closePage(p)
## Opens a web browser on the web page
if (interactive()) try(browseURL(file.path(tmpdir, 'test.html')))