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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

It eliminates Hmisc and R by giving you a tex file.  Now its up
to you to figure out how to handle tex files on your system.

On Jan 23, 2008 12:20 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > 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
>
> I don't think that addresses the problem.  If xdvi is truly in the
> system path then the problem is very strange.
>
> Frank
>
>
> >
> > 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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>                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University
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