With thanks to all who responded, especially Charles Berry and Don MacQueen, my student has everything working. The final solution was:
1. Install X11 and X11SDK (or make sure they are installed). 2. There is a button for starting X11 within the R GUI. 3. Sys.setenv( PATH=paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"/usr/texbin",sep=":") ) After doing this, latex() worked as desired when R is started from the MAC Finder. She and I thank you. Kevin Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: > Hello. > > I am posting this on behalf of a student in my class. I have been > introducing them to R. > > I suspect that the problem I need help with is not so much an R > issue, but a MAC config issue, but I don't have enough MAC > experience to know what to do. > > Anyway, on to the problem. We are using Frank Harrell's Hmisc > and Design packages. This student also wishes to use the latex > formatting facilities provided in those packages so she has installed > LaTeX. > > When she does something like latex(describe(dataframe)), the latex > file is produced, the dvi file is successfully written but then > the error "sh: line 1: xdvi: command not found" appears. > > I started a terminal and a "which xdvi" returned the path > where it found xdvi. So, it appears that xdvi is in the > PATH. > > My apologies, I forgot to get her sessionInfo() but I think > she is running R 2.6.? > -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.6057 ______________________________________________ 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.