[R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

[Michael]

On 29 Feb 2008, Frank E. Harrell, Jr. wrote:

> Several people have given great advice on how to successfully use X11 on 
> Mac to so we can use the dvi previewer to view latex() output from 
> Hmisc.  Now after a version upgrade of X11 and X11sdk we are getting 
> lots of crashes.  I noticed a Mac dvi previewer with an executable 
> stored as /Applications/TeX/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop
> 
> Can we bypass X11 problems and point Hmisc to this executable for dvi 
> viewing?

I think TeXshop converts dvi to pdf (something like dvips -> ps2pdf) for
viewing. Why not just use pdf for Mac?  Preview.app on Leopard does do live
updating.

>From Preview, those pdf file can also be dragged to Pages ducument.

Michael