[R] How to run Bibtex with pdfLatex in StatEt/MikTex on Windows ?

[Duncan Murdoch]

Your subject line says Windows, but your error message suggests MacOS.  
I think you need to post questions that are answerable if you want an 
answer.

Duncan Murdoch

On 03/10/2011 12:48 PM, syrvn wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> you were right. texi2dvi does latex + bibtex. Unfortunately I cannot get it
> running.
>
> When I run texi2dvi(file = "path/to/tex/file", pdf=TRUE, quiet=FALSE) then I
> get the following error message:
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Error in texi2dvi(file = "/Users/XXX/Desktop/test/body.tex", texinputs =
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf/tex/latex/tex",  :
>    Running 'texi2dvi' on '/Users/XXX/Desktop/test/body.tex' failed.
> Output:
> You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
> your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
> this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
> your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
> output for more details.
>
> For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://www.tug.org.  If
> you happen to be using Debian, you can get it with this command:
>    apt-get install tetex-bin
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> So the output tells us it cannot find a a tex binary file. If I open my
> terminal and type in:
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf/tex/latex/tex
>
> I get the following output:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
> **
>
> which means the tex binary is there.
>
>
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