I may be thick, but I'm still having the problem. I did look at help for tempdir(), but tempdir() just *returns* the directory that's used; it doesn't allow me to change it. As a slightly different tack, I tried using tempfile("dsk","\\kellytest")
but I still got the same error.
From looking at the source code line mentioned below, I wouldn't expect the tempfile() call that I tried to make a difference anyway.
So: Is there someway I can change the value of tempdir() so I can influence Hmisc? Also, in the source line quoted below, what is "tmp" and do I have some way to change that to give it a path without spaces?
I'm looking for a workaround here to allow to do some further testing/prototyping, not a permanent fix.
Thanks again -- David Kelly -------------- On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:53:48 +0000 (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a question about Hmisc, I believe, although you certainly did
> not mention it. Looking at the source code I see
>
> sys(paste("cd", tempdir(), sc, optionsCmds("latex"), tmp))
>
> do my guess is that it is writing .dvi files in tempdir().
> If you look up help on tempdir() you will see how to avoid this,
>
> Moral: don't guess, and don't make your readers guess either.
>
> And to Frank Harrell as author of Hmisc: spaces are valid in file names
> even on Unix/Linux, so it would be nice if this could be corrected.
I've resisted this until now. The fix appears to be to surround tempdir() and tmp by dQuote( ). This will be in the next release. I'm assuming that superfluous quotes never hurt. -Frank --- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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