building a package on a Mac: pdflatex
On 5 Jul 2011, at 14:48, David Winsemius wrote:
On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
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=$PATH:/user/texbin
fixed it if I use R and package.skeleton() from the terminal. If I use the R gui (from the standard R 2.13.0 CRAN download) it still does not find pdflatex and does not build a usable package skeleton.
In any case, your hit solved my issue. Now, how do I set the path for the R gui?
When the answer to this is posted, I am wondering if it could be put in the Mac R FAQ because it seems that I have read several questions of late that involve users puzzling where to set various paths for Finder, bash, and R that are stored in different places/environments. It would be good not to need to search for a r-sig-mac posting but rather refer to a "central document".
As a matter of completeness, PATH=$PATH:/user/texbin did not alter my path 'globally', and immediately broke in a new terminal tab.
I solved the issue globally with
sudo sh -c 'echo "/usr/texbin">>/etc/paths.d/texbin' [the reader should be warned I use bash by default on my terminal]
which does work if I use R in a terminal and I call system('pdflatex --version'). This solution also allowed a perfectly clean R CMD check.
On the other hand, from the GUI [R.app GUI 1.40 (5751) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0],
system("pdflatex --version")
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