>Can you, please, be more specific - for example why don't you tell us which package you're looking >at - that would make it much easier to reproduce ...
Choose a package. The first one in my listing happens to be ABarray. Click "Overview." Select either option (the first being ABarray.pdf:). Get black screen. If you'd prefer a more CRAN-based package, try vcd. Select "Overview"; click "residual shading.pdf"; get black screen. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Simon Urbanek <[email protected] > wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:12 , David Winsemius wrote: > > I'm guessing that it is known, but if not, I can report that it also >> happens on my Mac. >> >> For instance in the 64 bit GUI using the att.research binary R , clicking >> on the doBy line in the Package Manager window brings up a page with a link >> to "overview". Clicking on that brings up a black page in the viewing >> window. >> >> The other aspect of the Package Manager that does not appear finished is >> the lack of any functionality of the forward and back buttons. When using >> the PM for viewing documentation on packages that are not loaded I need to >> return to the package index page because the fwd and back buttons are always >> greyed out. >> >> > The usual shortcuts (Cmd+Left/Cmd+Right) still work. It appears that this > was in fact broken by Apple in 10.5 not by us. Anyway, this should be fixed > now. > > Thanks, > S > > > I just figured that both these were rather minor difficulties, since the >> overall capacities of R on the Mac are so vast. I would much rather that the >> developers continue as they have been, dealing with substantive problems >> like fixing rggobi/Ggobi. >> > > ... um ... I'm losing you here - I don't think that it either substantive > or a problem at least on my end ... > > > > Thank you to all who contributed to that addition. Very kewl. Tried to >> break it, er, test it with a big data set but it held up well. >> >> > > > -- >> David Winsemius >> >> sessionInfo and R.Version output follows >> >> > sessionInfo() >> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515) >> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 >> >> locale: >> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods >> base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] doBy_3.7 lattice_0.17-20 nlme_3.1-90 Design_2.1-2 >> survival_2.34-1 Hmisc_3.4-4 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] cluster_1.11.12 grid_2.8.1 tools_2.8.1 >> >> > R.Version() >> $platform >> [1] "i386-apple-darwin9.6.0" >> >> $arch >> [1] "i386" >> >> $os >> [1] "darwin9.6.0" >> >> $system >> [1] "i386, darwin9.6.0" >> >> $status >> [1] "Patched" >> >> $major >> [1] "2" >> >> $minor >> [1] "8.1" >> >> $year >> [1] "2009" >> >> $month >> [1] "01" >> >> $day >> [1] "07" >> >> $`svn rev` >> [1] "47515" >> >> $language >> [1] "R" >> >> $version.string >> [1] "R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515)" >> >> >> On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Zak wrote: >> >> Just installed the latest (3.8.1) R for Mac OS X after working for a >>> year on a much older version. Now, when I use the package manager and >>> then select a package with an overview that happens to be a pdf then >>> the pdf does not open up in the lower pane as it used to but only a >>> black pane appears. The pdf's are definitely there (as I can access >>> them through the vignette() utility (Bioconductor). Is this a known >>> bug/feature? Is it something to do with installing over prior >>> versions? Help! >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Zak >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
