[R-sig-Debian] [R] vignette problem

[Erin Hodgess]

Terrific!  It worked like a charm!

Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Erin


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Fernando Mayer <fernandomayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe this happens because you don't have xpdf installed. You can
> install it with
>
> $ sudo apt-get install xpdf
>
> or, use evince (which is the default pdf viewer in Ubuntu). To do this,
> change this option in your R session:
>
>> options(pdfviewer = "/usr/bin/evince")
>
> and try again. You may also want to put this line in your .Rprofile file
> if you want to keep evince the default for all R sessions from now own.
>
> []s,
>
> --
> Fernando Mayer
> Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia (PPGE)
> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
> URL: http://fernandomayer.googlepages.com
> e-mail: fernandomayer [@] gmail.com
>
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 20:52 -0500, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>> Dear R Debian People:
>>
>> I put this on the "big list" too.  I'm having a problem with the
>> vignette function.
>>
>> > vignette("snowfall")
>> sh: /usr/bin/xpdf: not found
>> >
>> >
>>
>> This is on Ubuntu Jaunty jackalope, R-2.8.1
>>
>> thanks,
>> Erin
>>
>>
>>
>
>



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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
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