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

[isaac Kohane]

On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

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> On Feb 9, 2009, at 20:59 , Zak wrote:
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>> Just installed the latest (3.8.1)
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> Cool - do you have a time machine ? ;)
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Ah, sorry, I should not have revealed my spatiotemporal capabilities.  
But let me assure you, 3.8.1 looks great!
Particularly enjoyed the "pay-the-programmer-with-food" package.
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>> 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!
>>
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> 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 ...
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> Also vignettes are accessible via Help -> Vignettes which is much
> better than using vignettes() [which is a function in R, not
> Bioconductor AFAICS].

OK, it happens for all pdfs in all packages but here is an example  
from  AffyCompatible (mac screen shots)

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> Thanks,
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