The problem seems to be with the Electron framework they switched to in the 
current version. 

>From https://dailies.rstudio.com/version/2022.07.1+554.pro3/ the previous 
>version works, but not the Electron version. For those that are interested 
>Electron is a newer framework that has the advantage of being completely free, 
>and is what is now used by RStudio rather than Qt.

Ken

> On 7 Feb 2023, at 2:49 pm, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Simon and Duncan.
> 
> I found the same plugins and removed them. It works correctly in the R.app.
> 
> RStudio still directs me to a browser window at the localhost address 
> 127.0.0.1 and nothing loads. I know RStudio is not R and this list is for R 
> so will probably have to search elsewhere for that solution unless anyone 
> here happens to have an idea.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -- 
> Kevin E. Thorpe
> Head of Biostatistics,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
> Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
> Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
> University of Toronto
> email: kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016
> 
>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 7:53 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> That worked for me.  I deleted two plugins from the global 
>> /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins folder named
>> 
>> AdobePDFViewer.plugin
>> AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
>> 
>> and dated from 2020.  Now things are fine.
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
>> 
>> On 06/02/2023 7:36 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>> Kevin,
>>> oh, that's something entirely different - what I was talking about was if 
>>> you use
>>> vignette("survival")
>>> in R it opens a Preview with the vignette.
>>> What you describe seems like a browser plugin issue, because the help 
>>> system is just an html page (assuming you are talking about the html help 
>>> system). So it seems that you may have installed some Adobe browser plugin 
>>> that doesn't work anymore. The plugins live in ~/Library/Internet\ 
>>> Plug-Ins/ (user) and /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/ (global), so you should 
>>> remove it from there.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>> On 7/02/2023, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> When I try to open a PDF vignette (say a vignette from the survival 
>>>> package)from the help system in R it does not open Preview. I cannot 
>>>> actually open any PDF vignettes. All I get is a finder window with the 
>>>> error I previously described. It asks me to select an appropriate viewer. 
>>>> Selecting Preview opens nothing and more errors are thrown to the Console. 
>>>> I could send you and Duncan screenshots off-list, since I know that theses 
>>>> lists are picky about attachments.
>>>> 
>>>> The steps I take are:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Open the R app.
>>>> 2. Start the Help system.
>>>> 3. Navigate to the survival package vignettes.
>>>> 4. Click the PDF link for the The survival package
>>>> 
>>>> Then the errors happen.
>>>> 
>>>> I will send a screenshot of the result off list.
>>>> 
>>>> Kevin
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Kevin E. Thorpe
>>>> Head of Biostatistics,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
>>>> Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
>>>> Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
>>>> University of Toronto
>>>> email: kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 4:58 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kevin,
>>>>> 
>>>>> can you then describe in more detail what you are taking about? If you 
>>>>> open a PDF vignette in R, it simply calls "open" so it will open in 
>>>>> Preview (as that is your system viewer). And you have confirmed that it 
>>>>> is what happens, so are you taking about something else? If so, please 
>>>>> describe every step you make to reproduce whatever issue you are having.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Simon
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 7, 2023, at 9:58 AM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, it does.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Kevin E. Thorpe
>>>>>> Head of Biostatistics,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
>>>>>> Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
>>>>>> Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
>>>>>> University of Toronto
>>>>>> email: kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 3:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 06/02/2023 3:47 p.m., Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>>>>>>>> Simon,
>>>>>>>> Preview is my default viewer. In the finder window that came up I 
>>>>>>>> tried selecting Preview as the viewer to use and it still failed. The 
>>>>>>>> following errors went to the Console.
>>>>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:43:55.448 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] 
>>>>>>>> called within transaction
>>>>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:43:55.568 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] 
>>>>>>>> called within transaction
>>>>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:44:03.253 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] 
>>>>>>>> called within transaction
>>>>>>>> 2023-02-06 15:44:16.012 R[62964:5174302] +[CATransaction synchronize] 
>>>>>>>> called within transaction
>>>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Kevin.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If you just run `open some.pdf` in a terminal, does it open properly in 
>>>>>>> Preview?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
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