Charles C. Berry wrote: > 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
Excellent. I much prefer solutions to workarounds. A .profile or .bashrc type of file can also extend the PATH this way. Thanks Chuck Frank > > 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.