James, Double-check your R installation to make sure that the knitr package is installed there. I've found that knitr occasionally disappears from my R library, and have had a similar (possibly the same) error when it disappears.
Regards, Tom On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 7:57 PM, James Saracco <jsara...@birdpop.org> wrote: > Dear group, > I'm a new Lyx user. I'm trying to add the Rnw(knitr) module in the > document -> settings, but get the following message: > "The module knitr requires a packages that is not available in your LaTex > installation, or a converter that you may not have installed. LaTex output > may not be possible. Missing prerequisites: knitr->latex" > I'm then referred to section 3.1.2.3 of the User's manual, which wasn't > too helpful. From Stackoverflow forum, I found reference to this problem in > Stackoverflow forum, which suggested a PATH problem. So I added the path to > my R installation to the list of PATH prefixes under the preferences tab > and reconfigured. But that didn't seem to do anything. > I installed Lyx using the LyX-2.0.7-Bundle-4.exe windows installer. I've > installed on both Windows 7 (desktop) and Windows 8 (notebook) machines > using all of the default installer options. Any thoughts on this would be > appreciated. Thanks! > > Jim > > -- > James F. Saracco > The Institute for Bird Populations > 907-957-4790 > jsara...@birdpop.org >
