[R-SIG-Mac] R.app Help window problem with mouse click on PDF

[Paul Roebuck]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, J[ISO-8859-1] örg Beyer wrote:

> I can confirm this problem for
>   Mac OS X 10.4.6
>   R 2.2.1
>   Adobe Reader 7.0.8
>
> (I searched the help files and found some valid pdf-links to
> test -- the one you mentioned is not part of R 2.2.1.)
>
> It would be interesting to see if this behavior is related to
> a specific Adobe Reader version. Anyone?

I can confirm that it's not AR version-specific behavior;
no longer have AR-6.0.x installed so someone else will have
to check that if necessary. It also makes no difference
whether the acroread application was running prior to the
invocation from within R.


Mac OS X 10.4.7
R.app 1.17-pre (3854)
Acrobat Reader 7.0.7

> version
               _
platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0
arch           powerpc
os             darwin8.7.0
system         powerpc, darwin8.7.0
status         RC
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          10
day            02
svn rev        39559
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 RC (2006-10-02 r39559)


> > Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8
> > R.app Version 2.4.0 GUI 1.17 (3868)
> >
> >
> > If I invoke a help window containing a URL to a PDF,
> > and I click on the hyperlink to the PDF, I get a
> > "Choose application" dialog window.  After dismissing
> > the window, the R help window disappears and I see
> > the following error output in the R.app GUI command line
> > window (see below).
> >
> > Anyone else noticing this behaviour?
> >
> > Reproduce:
> > Start R.app
> > Enter help command
> >> help("Methods", package = "methods")
> >
> > Click on the PDF hyperlink at the bottom of the help page
> >
> >   http://developer.r-project.org/howMethodsWork.pdf
> >
> >
> > (The hyperlink does work when I copy and paste it to a
> >  browser.)
> >
> > If I then reinvoke help
> >> help("Methods", package = "methods")
> > and click on the hyperlink, the help window goes
> > blank but no "Choose Application" dialog appears,
> > no error message in the console.


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