[R-SIG-Mac] R64 GUI hangs from Package Manager when accessing PDF files

[David Winsemius]

Is there an option to specify or change the default pdf viewer that  
would prevent un-breakable hangs after choosing a link in a menu of  
help files that happens to be a PDF file?

Example: upon highlighting the mboost package line in Package Manager  
and then selecting "package" in the lower window, the GUI hangs and R  
needs to be <Force-quit.>

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.1 Patched (2009-07-04 r48897)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.7.0

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Prior to posting I downloaded the most recent 64bit GUI and still get  
a hang, albeit now with several pages of error messages. I can only  
see the last page of errors which all say (a Grab copy):
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And if the mail server scrubs both those jpg and tiff files, I can  
provide a transcript if it would help, or the copied Problem report,  
or a log file (if you tell me where to find it).


-- 
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT