[statet-users] document preview with internal Eclipse viewer does not re

["John G. Bullock" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using StatET 4.1.0 to render R Markdown documents as HTML. For the 
most part, the process works well. But the final stage -- document 
preview -- does not work well. The problem is that changes that I make 
to the Rmd file are not automatically reflected in the previewed HTML 
document. Is there a solution to this problem?

To elaborate: I am using the "Auto YAML using R:RMarkdown, single-step" 
configuration that comes with StatET. When I first create an Rmd 
document and use this configuration to produce and preview my HTML 
output, there is no problem. But when I change the Rmd document (for 
example, by adding text) and then produce and preview my HTML output a 
second time, the preview doesn't reflect the changes to the document. In 
Eclipse, focus changes to the "preview" view, but I see a HTML version 
of the old document, not the updated one.

In a sense, the problem seems clear. A new version of the HTML document 
is created outside of Eclipse (by rmarkdown::render()). Eclipse doesn't 
realize that the HTML document has changed, and as a result, its 
internal browser does not refresh.

There are workarounds. If I set the "Preview Operation" to be done with 
an external tool (like an external web browser), the latest changes to 
my document are always reflected. If I keep the default Preview 
Operation setting, "Open file using Eclipse" -- but hit refresh (F5) 
every time that focus switches to the preview tab -- the new changes are 
also reflected. But neither of these workarounds is completely satisfactory.

Other things that don't work:
* Setting "Auto-refresh local changes" in the preview tab.
* Enabling "Refresh using native hooks or polling" in Preferences > 
General > Workspace.

Thank you for any help that you can offer.