[R] vignette problem

[Achim Zeileis]

On Sun, 24 May 2009, Erin Hodgess wrote:

> Dear R People:
>
> I'm using R-2.8.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty jackalope (or whatever its name
> is), and having a problem with the vignette function:
>
>> vignette("snowfall")
> sh: /usr/bin/xpdf: not found
>>

xpdf is configured to be the default PDF viewer but it is not installed on 
your machine at the moment:

R> getOption("pdfviewer")
[1] "/usr/bin/xpdf"

Either install xpdf or set options(pdfviewer = ...) to a PDF viewer that 
is already installed.

hth,
Z

> Has anyone run into this, please?
> Or is this for the Debian R list, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
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> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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