[R] Problem with vignette printing

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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.duncan at 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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