[R] a question about "latex" in Hmisc

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12/05/2010 4:33 PM, Shi, Tao wrote:
> Hi Ista,
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> You actually misunderstood me.  I never objected the "tmp <- latex(x)" method (in fact, that's what I'm doing now in my .Rnw file).  As I stated in my original post, I'm simply curious about what causes the error window and wanted to get to the bottom of it.
>   
latex(x) returns an object of class "latex".  When you don't assign it, 
it prints.  The print method for "latex" objects tries to run latex and 
then display the resulting .dvi file.  (Or maybe it runs pdflatex and 
displays the .pdf file).

If you can't run latex, you can't print those objects.  That's why 
you're getting an error.

Duncan Murdoch