[R] a question about "latex" in Hmisc and .dvi file

[Felipe Carrillo]

HI:
If you don't mind me asking this question about latex:
Based on Duncan's comment:
"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)."
Where in MikTex can I change to pdflatex? everytime I use latex it displays the dvi file which is a problem because tables that I want to see landscaped don't work. Thanks
 
Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish & Wildlife Service
California, USA



----- Original Message ----
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: "Shi, Tao" <shidaxia at yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 1:40:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] a question about "latex" in Hmisc
> 
> 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

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