OK, that vignette display page is really neat.  I never cease to be
surprised by these features you put in there.

How do I open the vignette from there? I see

PDF  RNW  R

Its embarrassing to ask, I think . There's no response if I middleclick. or
position the cursor and hit enter or any other keystroke I can think of.
Incidentally, if I weren't able to ask you, how would I know this from the
instructions?

I'm I've got a fishy build of Emacs. I'll search about...

pj




On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I cannot reproduce either. Never happened to me. If *R* buffer becomes
> read-only,  you can always C-x C-q to make it writable again.
>
> Do you experience the same problem with C-c C-d C-v?
>
>   Vitalie
>
>  >>> "Sparapani, Rodney" on Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:45:41 +0000 wrote:
>
>  SR> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 13:42 +0000, Sparapani, Rodney wrote:
>  >> Lately, it often happens that ESS hangs, and *R* minibuffer says "Text
>  >> is
>  >> read-only". I just found a repoducible example.
>  >>
>  >> Run this
>  >>
>  >> library(data.table)
>  >> vignette("datatable-intro")
>  >>
>  >> An Evince screen appears., I read the PDF a while, close that.
>  >>
>  >> In the *R* buffer I see
>  >>
>  >> >
>  >>
>  >> (evince:12584): EvinceDocument-CRITICAL **: ev_document_get_n_pages:
>  >> assertion 'EV_IS_DOCUMENT (document)' failed
>  >>
>  >> After closing the Evince window, I cannot find any way to get the
>  >> Emacs/ESS
>  >> session to work again. I cannot type commands at the prompt. Nor can I
>  >> run
>  >> them from the script window.
>  >>
>  >> The minibuffer reports "Text is read-only".  I can't find any way to
>  >> break
>  >> out.
>  >>
>  >> I've had this problem occasionally for the last few months, but never
>  >> reproducible before.
>  >>
>  >> Ubuntu Linux, Emacs 24.3.1 with ESS 13.09.
>
>  SR> Hi Paul:
>
>  SR> I can't reproduce.  For me, on RHEL 5.7, Emacs 24.3 and ESS 13.09-2,
>  SR> I get an acroread window rather than evince.  After closing the
>  SR> acroread window, everything behaves as expected.  This could be
>  SR> an evince issue.
>
>  SR> Rodney
>
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