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

[isaac Kohane]

Thanks for asking. Here you go:

R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)

  sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

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
 >

OX X 10.5.6


On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> 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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