a question about "latex" in Hmisc and .dvi file

On 13.05.2010 16:32, Felipe Carrillo wrote:

HI:
If you don't mind me asking this question about latex:
Based on Duncan's comment:
"The print method for "latex" objects tries to run latex and then display the resulting .dvi file.  (Or maybe it runs pdflatex and displays the .pdf file)."
Where in MikTex can I change to pdflatex? everytime I use latex it displays the dvi file which is a problem because tables that I want to see landscaped don't work. Thanks

Run pdflatex rather than latex?
  

Uwe Ligges

Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish&  Wildlife Service
California, USA



----- Original Message ----

From: Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
To: "Shi, Tao"<shidaxia at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 1:40:50 PM
Subject: Re: [R] a question about "latex" in Hmisc

On 12/05/2010 4:33 PM, Shi, Tao wrote:
Hi Ista,

Thanks
for the reply!

You actually misunderstood me.  I never
objected the "tmp<- latex(x)" method (in fact, that's what I'm doing now in
my .Rnw file).  As I stated in my original post, I'm simply curious about
what causes the error window and wanted to get to the bottom of
it.

latex(x) returns an object of class "latex".  When

you don't assign it, it prints.  The print method for "latex" objects tries
to run latex and then display the resulting .dvi file.  (Or maybe it runs
pdflatex and displays the .pdf file).

If you can't run latex, you can't

print those objects.  That's why you're getting an error.

Duncan

Murdoch