[R] latex{Hmisc} cannot find xdvi on MAC OS X

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I don't use Mac but a workaround to this type of
problem was discussed just recently here:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-January/151524.html

On Jan 23, 2008 9:22 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am posting this on behalf of a student in my class.  I have been
> introducing them to R.
>
> I suspect that the problem I need help with is not so much an R
> issue, but a MAC config issue, but I don't have enough MAC
> experience to know what to do.
>
> Anyway, on to the problem.  We are using Frank Harrell's Hmisc
> and Design packages.  This student also wishes to use the latex
> formatting facilities provided in those packages so she has installed
> LaTeX.
>
> When she does something like latex(describe(dataframe)), the latex
> file is produced, the dvi file is successfully written but then
> the error "sh: line 1: xdvi: command not found" appears.
>
> I started a terminal and a "which xdvi" returned the path
> where it found xdvi.  So, it appears that xdvi is in the
> PATH.
>
> My apologies, I forgot to get her sessionInfo() but I think
> she is running R 2.6.?
>
> --
> Kevin E. Thorpe
> Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
> Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
> Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
> email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.6057
>
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