Problem viewing overview pdf's

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 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