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

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> Charles C. Berry wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Excellent.  I much prefer solutions to workarounds.  A .profile or
> .bashrc type of file can also extend the PATH this way.
> 
> Thanks Chuck
> Frank

My student tried this but had the same result (failed) result.


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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