building a package on a Mac: pdflatex

Simon,

both are entirely irrelevant - run
system("pdflatex --version")
in R - that is the only thing that counts. If it shows an error, then you don't have pdflatex on your PATH which would be the problem. As a side note, you are showing two separate TeX packages which may not help you to find out what breaks in your setup in general ...

thanks for the hint. Unfortunately:

system("pdflatex --version")
/bin/sh: pdflatex: command not found

doing a simple

PATH=$PATH:/user/texbin 

fixed it if I use R and package.skeleton() from the terminal. If I use the R gui (from the standard R 2.13.0 CRAN download) it still does not find pdflatex and does not build a usable package skeleton.

In any case, your hit solved my issue. Now, how do I set the path for the R gui?

BW

Federico


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