[R-SIG-Mac] Problem viewing overview pdf's

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Eric Wooten wrote:

> >Can you, please, be more specific - for example why don't you tell  
> us which package you're looking >at - that would make it much easier  
> to reproduce ...
>
> Choose a package. The first one in my listing happens to be ABarray.  
> Click "Overview." Select either option (the first being  
> ABarray.pdf:). Get black screen.
>
> If you'd prefer a more CRAN-based package, try vcd. Select  
> "Overview"; click "residual shading.pdf"; get black screen.
>

Hm... I cannot replicate this - in 2.8.1 it shows the paper for me  
without problems.
Zak, Eric, can you, please, send me your sessionInfo() as well as the  
version of the OS X you're running?

Thanks,
Simon


>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org 
> > wrote:
>
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:12 , David Winsemius wrote:
>
> I'm guessing that it is known, but if not, I can report that it also  
> happens on my Mac.
>
> For instance in the 64 bit GUI using the att.research binary R ,  
> clicking on the doBy line in the Package Manager window brings up a  
> page with a link to "overview". Clicking on that brings up a black  
> page in the viewing window.
>
> The other aspect of the Package Manager that does not appear  
> finished is the lack of any functionality of the forward and back  
> buttons. When using the PM for viewing documentation on packages  
> that are not loaded I need to return to the package index page  
> because the fwd and back buttons are always greyed out.
>
>
> The usual shortcuts (Cmd+Left/Cmd+Right) still work. It appears that  
> this was in fact broken by Apple in 10.5 not by us. Anyway, this  
> should be fixed now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> S
>
>
> I just figured that both these were rather minor difficulties, since  
> the overall capacities of R on the Mac are so vast. I would much  
> rather that the developers continue as they have been, dealing with  
> substantive problems like fixing rggobi/Ggobi.
>
> ... um ... I'm losing you here - I don't think that it either  
> substantive or a problem at least on my end ...
>
>
>
>  Thank you to all who contributed to that addition. Very kewl. Tried  
> to break it, er, test it with a big data set but it held up well.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> David Winsemius
>
> sessionInfo and R.Version output follows
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515)
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets   
> methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] doBy_3.7        lattice_0.17-20 nlme_3.1-90     Design_2.1-2     
> survival_2.34-1 Hmisc_3.4-4
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.11.12 grid_2.8.1      tools_2.8.1
>
> > R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i386-apple-darwin9.6.0"
>
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
>
> $os
> [1] "darwin9.6.0"
>
> $system
> [1] "i386, darwin9.6.0"
>
> $status
> [1] "Patched"
>
> $major
> [1] "2"
>
> $minor
> [1] "8.1"
>
> $year
> [1] "2009"
>
> $month
> [1] "01"
>
> $day
> [1] "07"
>
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "47515"
>
> $language
> [1] "R"
>
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515)"
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Zak wrote:
>
> Just installed the latest (3.8.1) R for Mac OS X after working for a
> year on a much older version. Now, when I use the package manager and
> then select a package with an overview that happens to be a pdf then
> the pdf does not open up in the lower pane as it used to but only a
> black pane appears. The pdf's are definitely there (as I can access
> them through the vignette() utility (Bioconductor). Is this a known
> bug/feature? Is it something to do with installing over prior
> versions? Help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Zak
>
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