Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Charles C. Berry wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: >> >>> Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> That's exactly what it looks like. Shame on Mac "-) >>> >>> On my linux systems xdvi is in /usr/bin >> >> On my leopard, it is in /usr/texbin (as seen above) and >> >> Sys.setenv( PATH=paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"usr/texbin",sep=":") ) >> >> allows >> system("xdvi") >> >> and > > Excellent. I much prefer solutions to workarounds. A .profile or > .bashrc type of file can also extend the PATH this way. > > Thanks Chuck > Frank
My student tried this but had the same result (failed) result. -- 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.