On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: >> Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: >>> Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>>> It eliminates Hmisc and R by giving you a tex file. Now its up >>>> to you to figure out how to handle tex files on your system. >>> I have suggested the student try options(xdvicmd="fullpathtoxdvi") >>> to see what happens. >> >> Here is the result of trying the above. >> >>> latex(describe(ps1d)) >> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) >> %&-line parsing enabled. >> entering extended mode >> (/tmp/RtmpMi0s95/file10d63af1.tex >> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> >> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, >> dumylang, noh >> yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, >> german, ng >> erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, >> finnish, >> french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, >> interlingua, ibyc >> us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, >> polish, por >> tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, >> swedish, >> turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded. >> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls >> Document Class: report 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class >> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) >> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty >> Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01> >> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/relsize.sty) >> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty >> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) >> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg)) >> No file file10d63af1.aux. >> [1] [2] (./file10d63af1.aux) ) >> Output written on file10d63af1.dvi (2 pages, 10000 bytes). >> Transcript written on file10d63af1.log. >> /usr/texbin/xdvi: line 1: kpsewhich: command not found >> /usr/texbin/xdvi: line 46: exec: xdvi-xaw.bin: not found >> >> >> So, it appears to that something about the MAC environment is >> not being passed to the shell that is invoked when latex() is >> called in this way. > > That's exactly what it looks like. Shame on Mac "-) > > On my linux systems xdvi is in /usr/bin
On my leopard, it is in /usr/texbin (as seen above) and Sys.setenv( PATH=paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"usr/texbin",sep=":") ) allows system("xdvi") and system("kpsewhich --help") to succeed. HTH, Chuck > > Frank > >> >> Kevin >> > > > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.