I'm new to R, and using version 1.8.0 on Windows XP, under emacs/ess. I'm trying to test some simple output flow using functions in the Hmisc package and hit an error that may be a more general problem than just my specific situation.

If I issue the command
latex(describe(mtcars), file = “”)
I get what looks like good TeX code output to the console.

However, if I issue the command
dvips(latex(describe(mtcars)),file="friday.ps")

I get the following error:
Error in system(cmd, intern = intern, wait = wait | intern, show.output.on.console = wait, :
C:/Documents not found


and I don't find any postscript output file.

I'm guessing the "C:/Documents" reference is actually a problem with something dealing with paths with embedded spaces and that it's failing to deal with a path like C:/Documents and Settings/....

What I've been unable to figure out is what file reference it's hiccuping on, so that I can hopefully find a workaround. I tried several things without any change in behavior:
- insuring that the working directory for R didn't have any spaces in the pathname.
- changing my TEMP and TMP environment variables to paths without any spaces.
- in the possibility that some piece of software (emacs, R, LaTex) was looking for the TMPDIR environment variable, tried setting that to a path without any spaces.


Any ideas, suggestions for further experiments, or solutions would be welcome! A copy of any reply to my email address (as well as just posting to the list) would be appreciated.

Thank you -
David Kelly

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