On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:01, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> And note too that this is looking first for a script texi2dvi. If you have
> that, *it* will look for pdflatex, possibly already knowing where to look.
>
> Also note that both the usual texi2dvi and tools::texi2dvi will consult
> environment variables such as PDFLATEX.
>
> If you have a standard Mac TeX installation such as MacTeX, it should contain
> texi2dvi. So this seems to be entirely a path problem.
while it was entirely a path problem, the latest (2010) MacTex does *not*
contain texi2dvi:
which texi2dvi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi
and
$:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls texi*
texindy
but no texi2dvi. I did ask other mactex users and they also do not have texi2dvi
F
>
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> Federico,
>>
>> both are entirely irrelevant - run
>> system("pdflatex --version")
>> in R - that is the only thing that counts. If it shows an error, then you
>> don't have pdflatex on your PATH which would be the problem. As a side note,
>> you are showing two separate TeX packages which may not help you to find out
>> what breaks in your setup in general ...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
>>
>>> On 5 Jul 2011, at 10:44, Federico Calboli wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>> My comment is, pdflatex *is* availiable:
>>>>
>>>> $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex
>>>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 21 Oct 2010 pdflatex -> pdftex
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex
>>>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 21 Oct 2010 pdflatex -> pdftex
>>>
>>> Before anyone asks:
>>>
>>> $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls /usr/texbin/pdflatex
>>> /usr/texbin/pdflatex
>>>
>>> so that's not the issue.
>>>
>>> bw
>>>
>>> F
>>>
>>>
>>>
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