> The command Rd2pdf was rather useful for opening a package's manual
> when you don't have access to the Internet (by using latex to pdf
> conversion). However the way the function seems to operate changed at
> version 2.14 of R. The noted changes listed on CRAN for this function
> are as follows (which doesn't seem like it would affect my usage as
> below):
>
> #R CMD Rd2dvi without the --pdf option is now deprecated: only PDF output
> will be
> #supported in future releases (since this allows the use of fonts only
> #supported for PDF), and only R CMD Rd2pdf will be available.
>
> The way I used to open a package's pdf manual from latex file was as
> follows:
(path <- find.package('plyr'))
system(paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R")),"CMD",
"Rd2pdf",shQuote(path)))
> After version 2.14 R the same code now throws up the error:
>
> Hmm ... looks like a package
> Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX ........
> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
> Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE, :
> pdflatex is not available
> Error in running tools::texi2dvi
> Warning message:
> running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R" CMD
> Rd2pdf "C:/Users/Rinker/R/win-library/2.14/plyr"' had status 1
>
>
> I'm running this from the R console. Any idea on what changes would
> be needed to make this code work to generate a pdf from latex? I also
> just downloaded the new miktex2.9 over 2.8. Not sure if this
> information is relevant (I believe this is an R problem but don't know how to
> diagnosis this from the error). Usually, I can figure out the error message
> but not this time.
R version 2.14.0 2011-10-31
OS windows 7
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