The program 'gv' is installed on just about any linux system.
It has many available options (one, which might be useful,
being "-watch", whose effect is that if the file being displayed
is changed, e.g. by being over-written by a new file with the
same name, then 'gv' automatically updates what it is displaying).
And of course many linux users install 'acroread' (Acrobat
Reader), though some object!
Hoping this helps,
Ted.
On 09-Dec-2014 20:47:06 Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> the last one is wrong. That is the one for which I don't know the
> right answer on linux.
>
> 'xdvi' displays dvi files. you need to display a pdf file.
> whatever is the right program on linux to display pdf files is what
> belongs there.
>
> On Macintosh we can avoid knowing by using 'open', which means use the
> system standard.
> I don't know what the linux equivalent is, either the exact program or
> the instruction to use the standard.
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 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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