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

[Charles C. Berry]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

> 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

On my leopard, it is in /usr/texbin (as seen above) and

 	Sys.setenv( PATH=paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"usr/texbin",sep=":") )

allows
 	system("xdvi")

and

 	system("kpsewhich --help")

to succeed.

HTH,

Chuck

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