[R-SIG-Mac] Cannot open PDF Vignettes on Ventura

[Kevin Thorpe]

I noticed today that I can no longer open PDF vignettes from the help system in Ventura. I first noticed it in RStudio. Previously PDFs would open in Preview but now they try to open in a web page. So, I tried in native R (outside RStudio). I started the help system and went to the survival package vignettes and tried to open one. I eventually got a Finder window with the message, "AdobePDFViewer cannot find a compatible Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to view this PDF. Please select one.” At the top of it.

Besides Preview I do also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed (but it is not set as the default viewer for PDFs).

Additionally, the following error appeared in the Console when I tried to view a PDF vignette (for the sake of reproducibility I tried to load the survival.pdf vignette).

2023-02-06 11:10:56.198 R[52961:4981916] CFURLResourceIsReachable failed because it was passed a URL which has no scheme

Has anyone else encountered this?

Here is my sessionInfo()

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_CA.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] knitr_1.42

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.2.2 tools_4.2.2    xfun_0.37     

 

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Kevin E. Thorpe
Head of Biostatistics,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
email: kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016