[Rd] texi2pdf doesn't find the correct MikTex installation due to erroneous Sys.which()

[Joris Meys]

Aargh... I've been windofied again. When will I learn...

On 27 Jun 2017 19:49, "Rich Calaway" <richcala at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Ah, but I bet you do have that path...try
>
> > Sys.which("texify")
>                                              texify
> "C:\\PROGRA~2\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin\\texify.exe"
> > normalizePath(Sys.which("texify"))
> [1] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\texify.exe"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich Calaway
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> Meys
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>
> I checked after this question popped up on Stackoverflow:
>
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> On Windows, texi2pdf looks for the texify.exe of Miktex, but looks in a
> very wrong place:
>
> > Sys.which("texify")
>                                                   texify
> "C:\\PROGRA~1\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64\\texify.exe"
>
> That folder is not on my computer (I have 2.9 installed), not in my path,
> not in my system path and I couldn't find it in my register. So it appears
> as if Sys.which() is looking in the wrong place.
>
> What could cause this?
>
> Kind regards
> Joris
>
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