On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel<e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Paul, > > On 15 June 2009 at 08:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > | Greetings to everybody in r-sig-debian land. > | > | I hope I have found the right place to ask this. If not, please refer me > on... > > No this is the right place. So welcome! > > | I run R 2.9 on Ubuntu 9.04. > > That was 'a little underspecified'. "Whose R"? I.e. where did the binary come > from? CRAN? Or from sources and you built it yourself? What is the > architecture? >
Ah, I'm using the ubuntu package from CRAN, I think. I download it from the Iowa state mirror: deb http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/ #iastate R > [ Ok, I figured it out comparing amd64 (at work) to i386 (at home). My > R-on-Ubuntu at home has the same problem. ] > I've downloaded the R source code and I see where the problem originates. I think the DEB packages for ubuntu must be built on a system that does not have any of the expected pdf viewers. If you look in the R configure script, it sets a macro variable for the viewer ## PDF viewer for ac_prog in ${R_PDFVIEWER} acroread acroread4 evince xpdf gv gnome-gv ggv kghostview open gpdf When I buld R on my system, it finds acroread and that gets put into the /etc/R/Renviron file for the PDFVIEWER. On the system where R is built for CRAN, it must not find acroread, evince, or anything until "open". I *THINK* it might be slightly more "in style" to make the preferred pdf viewer xdg-open. I've had some ups and downs with xdg-open because it is poorly documented (that's another trauma discussed elsewhere). But, if you are going by the Ubuntu community standard, xdg-open should be first. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian