>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.



On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek@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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