I set these options:
options(latexcmd='pdflatex')
options(dviExtension='pdf')
options(xdvicmd='xdvi')
Maybe one too many? I'm running in Linux.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> wrote:
> It looks like you skipped the step of setting the options.
> the latex function doesn't do pdflatex (by default it does regular
> latex) unless you set the options
> as I indicated.
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah yes, you're right.
>>
>> The log has this error:
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> Though can't really find much online on how to resolve it.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
>> wrote:
>>> pdflatex appears to have run, because it exited. You should look at the tex
>>> log file, the problem is more likely that the latex you sent out to
>>> pdflatex was incomplete.
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>>> On December 9, 2014 8:43:02 AM PST, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>Thanks! I do get several errors though when running on Linux.
>>>>
>>>>Running your code, I get this:
>>>>
>>>>Error in system(cmd, intern = TRUE, wait = TRUE) :
>>>>error in running command
>>>>
>>>>Fiddling around with the code and running this:
>>>>
>>>>tmp <- matrix(1:9,3,3)
>>>>tmp.tex <- latex(tmp, file='tmp.tex')
>>>>print.default(tmp.tex)
>>>>tmp.dvi <- dvi(tmp.tex)
>>>>tmp.dvi
>>>>tmp.tex
>>>>dvips(tmp.dvi)
>>>>dvips(tmp.tex)
>>>>library(tools)
>>>>texi2dvi(file='tmp.tex', pdf=TRUE, clean=TRUE)
>>>>
>>>>I get this:
>>>>
>>>>Error in texi2dvi(file="tmp.tex",, :
>>>> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'tmp.tex' failed.
>>>>Messages:
>>>>/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex exited with bad status, quitting.
>>>>
>>>>I've read that it may have something to do with the path of pdflatex.
>>>>
>>>>Sys.which('pdflatex')
>>>>
>>>> pdflatex
>>>>
>>>>"/usr/bin/pdflatex"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sys.which('texi2dvi')
>>>>
>>>> texi2dvi
>>>>
>>>>"/usr/bin/texi2dvi"
>>>>
>>>>> file.exists(Sys.which('texi2dvi'))
>>>>
>>>>[1] TRUE
>>>>
>>>>> file.exists(Sys.which('pdflatex'))
>>>>
>>>>[1] TRUE
>>>>
>>>>Is there a specific path I should be giving with pdflatex and/or
>>>>'texi2dvi to make this work?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>> yes of course, and the answer is latex() in the Hmisc package.
>>>>> Why were you excluding it?
>>>>> Details follow
>>>>>
>>>>> Rich
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The current release of the Hmisc package has this capability on
>>>>> Macintosh and Linux.
>>>>> For Windows, you need the next release 3.14-7 which is available now
>>>>at github.
>>>>>
>>>>> ## windows needs these lines until the new Hmisc version is on CRAN
>>>>> install.packages("devtools")
>>>>> devtools::install_github("Hmisc", "harrelfe")
>>>>>
>>>>> ## All operating systems
>>>>> options(latexcmd='pdflatex')
>>>>> options(dviExtension='pdf')
>>>>>
>>>>> ## Macintosh
>>>>> options(xdvicmd='open')
>>>>>
>>>>> ## Windows, one of the following
>>>>>
>>>>options(xdvicmd='c:\\progra~1\\Adobe\\Reader~1.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe')
>>>>> ## 32-bit windows
>>>>>
>>>>options(xdvicmd='c:\\progra~2\\Adobe\\Reader~1.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe')
>>>>> ## 64 bit windows
>>>>>
>>>>> ## Linux
>>>>> ## I don't know the xdvicmd value
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ## this works on all R systems
>>>>> library(Hmisc)
>>>>> tmp <- matrix(1:9,3,3)
>>>>> tmp.dvi <- dvi(latex(tmp))
>>>>> print.default(tmp.dvi) ## prints filepath of the pdf file
>>>>> tmp.dvi ## displays the pdf file on your screen
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Kate Ignatius
>>>><kate.ignat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a simple question. I know there are plenty of packages out
>>>>>> there that can provide code to generate a table in latex. But I was
>>>>>> wondering whether there was one out there where I can generate a
>>>>table
>>>>>> from my data (which ever way I please) then allow me to save it as a
>>>>>> pdf?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> K.
>>>>>>
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