bingo. Didn’t think of the plugin, as Safari and Chrome both open pdfs inline using Preview.app
The Adobe detritus was here if anyone else has this problem. /Library/Internet Plug-ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin thanks! t > On 13 Aug 2015, at 7:47 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > Tim, > > I fear that it must be a setting on your Mac - the default is to show the PDF > in-ine in the same window (which uses the Preview engine behind the scenes). > I suspect that you must have installed the Adobe plugin at some point (or > some Adobe software) - OS X doesn't know anything about Adobe until you > install some of their products at which point it's actually really hard to > reverse the changes their installers make. > > Cheers, > Simon > > >> On Aug 13, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Tim Bates <timothy.c.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> In R.app 3.2.0, doing >> >> ?function -> index -> vignettes -> pdf >> >> R.app requests a version of Adobe Reader. I don’t have this installed, but >> all OS X users have preview.app >> >> Could the help service be coded to either: >> 1. just open pdfs (that way they’ll be in a stand alone app configured by >> the user. >> 2. set preview.app as the default in-app viewer? >> >> >> my version is >> _ >> platform x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 >> arch x86_64 >> os darwin13.4.0 >> system x86_64, darwin13.4.0 >> status >> major 3 >> minor 2.0 >> year 2015 >> month 04 >> day 16 >> svn rev 68180 >> language R >> version.string R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) >> nickname Full of Ingredients >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
