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

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
> Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
>> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I have suggested the student try options(xdvicmd="fullpathtoxdvi")
>> to see what happens.
> 
> Here is the result of trying the above.
> 
>> latex(describe(ps1d))
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (/tmp/RtmpMi0s95/file10d63af1.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak,
> german, ng
> erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi,
> finnish,
>  french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian,
> interlingua, ibyc
> us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk,
> polish, por
> tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian,
> swedish,
> turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls
> Document Class: report 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty
> Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01>
> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/relsize.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg))
> No file file10d63af1.aux.
> [1] [2] (./file10d63af1.aux) )
> Output written on file10d63af1.dvi (2 pages, 10000 bytes).
> Transcript written on file10d63af1.log.
> /usr/texbin/xdvi: line 1: kpsewhich: command not found
> /usr/texbin/xdvi: line 46: exec: xdvi-xaw.bin: not found
> 
> 
> So, it appears to that something about the MAC environment is
> not being passed to the shell that is invoked when latex() is
> called in this way.

That's exactly what it looks like.  Shame on Mac "-)

On my linux systems xdvi is in /usr/bin

Frank

> 
> Kevin
> 


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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University