[R] Problem with vignette printing

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Sébastien Bihorel wrote:

> Yes, I have installed R through opensuse's package installer. Is ?Startup
> the correct place to look at about environment variables or is there a more
> appropriate help page?

Well, ?R_PDFVIEWER brings up a more appropriate page.

> 
> 
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>       On Fri, 14 May 2010, Sébastien Bihorel wrote:
>
>             Hi Duncan,
>
>             You are right, my options("pdfviewer") is currently
>             an empty string... I
>             will have to look into the documentation to create a
>             .Rprofile (I believe)
>             and set this option at loading.
> 
> 
> You could, but the help says
> 
>     ‘pdfviewer’: default PDF viewer.  The default is set from the
>          environment variable ‘R_PDFVIEWER’, the default value of
>          which is set when R is configured.
> 
> and that normal way is to set R_PDFVIEWER -- but no such viewer was
> found when R was configured.  (If R was configured by someone else,
> e.g. if this was an RPM install, that may not be representative of
> your system.)
> 
>
>       Thanks for your help.
>
>       Sebastien
>
>       On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Duncan Murdoch
>       <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>       On 14/05/2010 7:25 AM, S?bastien Bihorel wrote:
>
>             Dear R-users,
>
>             I am trying to figure out why I cannot
>             print vignettes in my new R
>             installation (R.11 on opensuse 11.2).
>             Apparently, vignette objects are
>             properly created but could not be
>             printed:
> 
> 
>
>                   z<-vignette('grid')
>                   str(z)
> 
>
>             List of 3
>              $ file : chr
>             "/usr/lib/R/library/grid/doc/grid.Snw"
>              $ pdf  : chr
>             "/usr/lib/R/library/grid/doc/grid.pdf"
>              $ topic: chr "grid"
>              - attr(*, "class")= chr "vignette"
> 
>
>                   z
> 
>
>             sh: : command not found
>
>             What would you suggest me to do to
>             perform a step-by-step debugging of the
>             vignette-specific print function?
> 
>
>       The print function is utils:::print.vignette.  It
>       looks as though your
>       options("pdfviewer") setting doesn't work.
>
>       Duncan Murdoch
> 
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>

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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