*SOLVED* latex{Hmisc} cannot find xdvi on MAC OS X
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: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.6057