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
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
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
