Message-ID: <1A826D8B-8F90-442D-A62C-5693E1A196A6@imperial.ac.uk>
Date: 2011-07-05T13:10:20Z
From: Federico Calboli
Subject: building a package on a Mac: pdflatex
In-Reply-To: <8177952B-DCB0-459C-B913-CEA00DAE370A@r-project.org>
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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