Ok,

Solved the problem by editing my Renviron file in /usr/lib/R/etc.

Thanks everyone for your help.

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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@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@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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>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/>
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/>
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
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