Yes, I have installed R through opensuse's package installer. Is ?Startup
the correct place to look at about environment variables or is there a more
appropriate help page?
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Sébastien Bihorel wrote:
>
> Hi Duncan,
>>
>> You are right, my options("pdfviewer") is currently an empty string... I
>> will have to look into the documentation to create a .Rprofile (I believe)
>> and set this option at loading.
>>
>
> You could, but the help says
>
> pdfviewer: default PDF viewer. The default is set from the
> environment variable R_PDFVIEWER, the default value of
> which is set when R is configured.
>
> and that normal way is to set R_PDFVIEWER -- but no such viewer was found
> when R was configured. (If R was configured by someone else, e.g. if this
> was an RPM install, that may not be representative of your system.)
>
>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Sebastien
>>
>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> On 14/05/2010 7:25 AM, S?bastien Bihorel wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear R-users,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to figure out why I cannot print vignettes in my new R
>>>> installation (R.11 on opensuse 11.2). Apparently, vignette objects are
>>>> properly created but could not be printed:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> z<-vignette('grid')
>>>>> str(z)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> List of 3
>>>> $ file : chr "/usr/lib/R/library/grid/doc/grid.Snw"
>>>> $ pdf : chr "/usr/lib/R/library/grid/doc/grid.pdf"
>>>> $ topic: chr "grid"
>>>> - attr(*, "class")= chr "vignette"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> z
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> sh: : command not found
>>>>
>>>> What would you suggest me to do to perform a step-by-step debugging of
>>>> the
>>>> vignette-specific print function?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The print function is utils:::print.vignette. It looks as though your
>>> options("pdfviewer") setting doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>
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>>
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