Ok,
Solved the problem by editing my Renviron file in /usr/lib/R/etc.
Thanks everyone for your help.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Sébastien Bihorel wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>
> Well, ?R_PDFVIEWER brings up a more appropriate 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,
>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/>
>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/>
> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
>
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