[R] Hmisc & pdflatex

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/04/2013 10:34 AM, Santosh wrote:
> Dear Rxperts,
> Apologize for posting it to a wrong thread..Hence, the re-post...
>
> I am trying to use pdflatex from Hmisc, I get the error message. "pdflatex
> is not available"... The version of Hmisc is the latest one (got the
> warning that it was compiled under R version 2.15.3) .
>
> The version of R on my machine is
> > version
>
> platform       i386-w64-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
>   status
> major          2
> minor          15.2
> year           2012
> month          10
> day            26
> svn rev        61015
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
>   nickname       Trick or Treat
> >
>
> Is it not available anymore? I created a latex file using "tables" package
> and am unable to create the pdf file using pdflatex ... I am also not able
> to use Sweave with the above version of R as it is not available.

In this context, "not available" means not listed in your system PATH.  
Use Sys.getenv("PATH") to get your current PATH; it will be a list of 
directories.  If none of those directories contain pdflatex.exe, then 
pdflatex is "not available".

Duncan Murdoch

>
> I also tried texi2dvi (from tools); and it says "latex is not available".
> But,  I was earlier able to use "latex" with tabular to generate a "tex"
> file. I am confused with such conflicting messages.
>
> Also.. when I tried to use latex again,
>   latex(summ2,title=outfile,file="a1.tex") # summ2 is a "tabular" output
> using "tables" package
> 'latex' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Error in system(cmd, intern = TRUE, wait = TRUE) : 'yap' not found
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: running command 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c cd
> "C:\Users\santosh\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsZ3tP9" & latex
> -interaction=scrollmode
> "C:\Users\santosh\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsZ3tP9\file13207cb8d2c"' had
> status 1
> 2: In shell(cmd, wait = TRUE, intern = output) :
>    'cd "C:\Users\santosh\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsZ3tP9" & latex
> -interaction=scrollmode
> "C:\Users\santosh\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsZ3tP9\file13207cb8d2c"' execution
> failed with error code 1
>
>
> Any suggestions welcome!
> Thanks,
> Santosh
>
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