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

[Simon Urbanek]

Kevin,

oh, that's something entirely different - what I was talking about was if you use
vignette("survival")
in R it opens a Preview with the vignette.

What you describe seems like a browser plugin issue, because the help system is just an html page (assuming you are talking about the html help system). So it seems that you may have installed some Adobe browser plugin that doesn't work anymore. The plugins live in ~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/ (user) and /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/ (global), so you should remove it from there.

Cheers,
Simon


> On 7/02/2023, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> When I try to open a PDF vignette (say a vignette from the survival package)from the help system in R it does not open Preview. I cannot actually open any PDF vignettes. All I get is a finder window with the error I previously described. It asks me to select an appropriate viewer. Selecting Preview opens nothing and more errors are thrown to the Console. I could send you and Duncan screenshots off-list, since I know that theses lists are picky about attachments.
> 
> The steps I take are:
> 
> 1. Open the R app.
> 2. Start the Help system.
> 3. Navigate to the survival package vignettes.
> 4. Click the PDF link for the The survival package
> 
> Then the errors happen.
> 
> I will send a screenshot of the result off list.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -- 
> 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
> 
>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 4:58 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Kevin,
>> 
>> can you then describe in more detail what you are taking about? If you open a PDF vignette in R, it simply calls "open" so it will open in Preview (as that is your system viewer). And you have confirmed that it is what happens, so are you taking about something else? If so, please describe every step you make to reproduce whatever issue you are having.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 7, 2023, at 9:58 AM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes, it does.
>>> 
>>> Kevin
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 3:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/02/2023 3:47 p.m., Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>>>>> Simon,
>>>>> Preview is my default viewer. In the finder window that came up I tried selecting Preview as the viewer to use and it still failed. The following errors went to the Console.
>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:43:55.448 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] called within transaction
>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:43:55.568 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] called within transaction
>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:44:03.253 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] called within transaction
>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:44:16.012 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] called within transaction
>>>>> Kevin
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Kevin.
>>>> 
>>>> If you just run `open some.pdf` in a terminal, does it open properly in Preview?
>>>> 
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> 
>> 
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