>From the Windows (not R) command line try this (the input you type is after the > and the output is on the next line). Modify the ftype line appropriately if the output of assoc is different for you.
C:\tmp2>assoc .pdf .pdf=AcroExch.Document C:\tmp2>ftype AcroExch.Document AcroExch.Document="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "%1" On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:50 PM, <marcthiba...@tanda.on.ca> wrote: > Full_Name: Marc Thibault > Version: 2.8.1 > OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 > Submission from: (NULL) (216.104.125.106) > > > I had Adobe Acrobat 5 and Adobe Reader 9 installed. The .pdf "open" > association > is to Reader. > > When I selected "Help | Manuals(in pdf) | An Introduction to R", it brought up > the file in Acrobat instead of Reader. After making sure the default > associations were correctly pointing to Reader, I took the extreme step of > uninstalling Acrobat. Now when I try the same thing, R responds with "Error: > access to 'doc\manual\R-intro.pdf' denied." Outside of R, double clicking the > file brings it up in Reader as it should. Asking for HTML help works fine, so > access to doc\ hasn't really been lost. > > It seems that R picks up a reference to the pdf reader at installation time, > doesn't do it right, and refuses to let go. On the other hand, reinstalling R > didn't fix the problem. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
