Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> It eliminates Hmisc and R by giving you a tex file. Now its up >> to you to figure out how to handle tex files on your system. > > I have suggested the student try options(xdvicmd="fullpathtoxdvi") > to see what happens.
Here is the result of trying the above. > latex(describe(ps1d)) This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (/tmp/RtmpMi0s95/file10d63af1.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded. (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls Document Class: report 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/relsize.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg)) No file file10d63af1.aux. [1] [2] (./file10d63af1.aux) ) Output written on file10d63af1.dvi (2 pages, 10000 bytes). Transcript written on file10d63af1.log. /usr/texbin/xdvi: line 1: kpsewhich: command not found /usr/texbin/xdvi: line 46: exec: xdvi-xaw.bin: not found So, it appears to that something about the MAC environment is not being passed to the shell that is invoked when latex() is called in this way. Kevin -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.6057 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
