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...tem("echo $DISPLAY",intern=T))==0) # no X {options(htmlhelp=FALSE) ret <- "no X"} else {system("mozilla") # we have X - I'm starting this to get a new # window for the R session, without starting a new window every time options(pdfviewer="/usr/local/bin/acroread",browser="mozilla") help.start() ret <- "X"} ret } ---- Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia Room V133 ph +61 2 4921 5548 Robert.King at newcastle.edu....

Dear R People: I'm using R-2.8.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty jackalope (or whatever its name is), and having a problem with the vignette function: > vignette("snowfall") sh: /usr/bin/xpdf: not found > Has anyone run into this, please? Or is this for the Debian R list, please? Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R, Usually when I want to read pdf help for R functions under Linux, I do the following steps > help("par",help_type="pdf") > system(paste(getOption("pdfviewer"),"par.pdf")) which works well. First question, can I let "help" to save the pdf file to a different place other than current working directory? Now I want to write a small function to do the above together. > viewpdfhelp <- function(topic, reader = getOption(&quot...

Colleagues, I am interesting in opening a PDF document via the command line from both Windows, OS X, and Linux ( R version 2.8.0). I found a command openPDF in Biobase. However, I would rather execute the command myself. For example, in OS X: > system("open filename.pdf") is successful. Is there a comparable command line command for Windows or Linux? Dennis Dennis Fisher

I am building a package for various noncentral hypergeometric distributions. I want to include some heavy mathematical formulas. It appears that the build and INSTALL commands produce only .chm files and not .pdf files from my .Rd files under Windows. This means that it cannot show complicated mathematical formulas. The solution might be to include a .pdf file as a vignette. I tried that,

I am building a package for various noncentral hypergeometric distributions. I want to include some heavy mathematical formulas. It appears that the build and INSTALL commands produce only .chm files and not .pdf files from my .Rd files under Windows. This means that it cannot show complicated mathematical formulas. The solution might be to include a .pdf file as a vignette. I tried that,

...\\int_{", min(xi), "}^{", max(xi), "}p(x)dx\\approx", round(int[['value']],3), '$', sep='')) #Close the device dev.off() # Compile the tex file tools::texi2dvi('normal.tex',pdf=T) # optionally view it: # system(paste(getOption('pdfviewer'),'normal.pdf'))

...rogram that tries to spawn a pdf viewer fails with this somewhat uninformative error message: > RShowDoc("frame", package="grid") > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console I've traced this back to a setting in /etc/R/Renviron: ## Default PDF viewer R_PDFVIEWER=${R_PDFVIEWER-'/bin/open'} That setting causes the trouble--if it is changed to a valid pdf viewer, then the strange error message does not appear. If your system has the OpenDesktop mime system in place, this setting will work: # Default PDF viewer R_PDFVIEWER=${R_PDFVIEWER-'/usr/bi...

Dear R Debian People: I put this on the "big list" too. I'm having a problem with the vignette function. > vignette("snowfall") sh: /usr/bin/xpdf: not found > > This is on Ubuntu Jaunty jackalope, R-2.8.1 thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess

Hi, I can't pinpoint exactly since what R version I first noticed this error, but are others seeing this? R> vignette("grid") R> sh: : command not found instead of having the vignette displayed in the proper viewer? This is with: R> sessionInfo() R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu locale:

...lt;- function(PDFFILENAME) { OPENPDFCOMMAND <- "open" # applies to OS X if (!UNIX) OPENPDFCOMMAND <- "start" # applies to Windows if (LINUX) { OPENPDFCOMMAND <- getOption("pdfviewer") # S- Plus does not set this option # also, R appears to not set it in SUSE TESTTHESE <- c("xpdf", "evince", "acroread") if (is.null(OPENPDFCOMMAND)) # look for application named ......

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

Hello dear R, I dont have specific task on mind just learning R. 1) Is it possible to open a document for example path1\myfile.pdf with program path2\pdfviewer.exe ? How would I do it in win? Does it differ in linux? 2) Is it possible to run a program and supply to it some streams? The streams are for example txt file or web address. One specific task which comes to mid: I would like to draw in inkscape programmatically with script. Is it somehow possi...

Dear all, I seem to have many problems as I run R on my ubuntu system. want to set a mirror so that anytime I use the command "install.packages", it does not ask me for which mirror to use but go direct. This is because of the error I keep on getting below and I dont know how to solve it. Please help. Kind regards, Lazarus > library(epicalc) Loading required package: foreign

Writing R extensions says: In addition to the help files in Rd format, R packages allow the inclusion of documents in arbitrary other formats. The standard location for these is subdirectory inst/doc of a source package, the contents will be copied to subdirectory doc when the package is installed. Pointers from package help indices to the installed documents are automatically created.

Hello All R-Gurus: ISSUE: Cannot view R vignettes due in Ubuntu Linux (a debian variant). note: this issue has been posted to this list before with no responses given see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-September/141178.html DETAILS: I am trying to view an R vignette. Here is the situation: I issue the openvignette(), then select the vignette I wish to view...and the system returns:

...e `gr' argument (contributed by Adrian Trapletti). o PDF files produced by pdf() have more extensive information fields, including the version of R that produced them. o On Unix(-alike) systems the default PDF viewer is now determined during configuration, and available as the 'pdfviewer' option. o pie(...) has always accepted graphical pars but only passed them on to title(). Now pie(, cex=1.5) works. o plot.dendrogram (`mva' package) now draws leaf labels if present by default. o New plot.design() function as in S. o The postscript() and PDF() drive...

...e `gr' argument (contributed by Adrian Trapletti). o PDF files produced by pdf() have more extensive information fields, including the version of R that produced them. o On Unix(-alike) systems the default PDF viewer is now determined during configuration, and available as the 'pdfviewer' option. o pie(...) has always accepted graphical pars but only passed them on to title(). Now pie(, cex=1.5) works. o plot.dendrogram (`mva' package) now draws leaf labels if present by default. o New plot.design() function as in S. o The postscript() and PDF() drive...