[R-SIG-Mac] [R] Rd2dvi problem.

[Rolf Turner]

On 11/11/2008, at 9:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10/11/2008, at 7:54 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>> R_LATEXCMD is defined in R_HOME/etc/Renviron (sourced by R CMD), and
>>> conditionally re-defined in Rd2dvi.
>>>
>>> On a sub-architecture build such as the CRAN MacOS distribution  
>>> that will
>>> be R_HOME/etc/<arch>/Renviron, and on that distribution it is  
>>> defined as
>>> 'false'.  So you do need to define to a proper value in your  
>>> environment,
>>> e.g. put R_LATEXCMD=latex in your ~/.Renviron file.
>>
>> Thanks Brian.  Tried that just now --- and of course it didn't work.
>> (*Nothing* ever works for me! :-( )  In more detail --- I found that
>> I didn't *have* a .Renviron file.  So I created one, with the single
>> line
>>
>>       R_LATEXCMD=latex
>>
>> But I got the same error situation as before.  Is there any other  
>> action
>> I need to take to get the system to notice my ~/.Renviron file?
>
> Oops, sorry, R CMD does not read ~/.Renviron.  You need to set
> R_LATEXCMD=latex in the shell you use to run 'R CMD Rd2dvi'.

	Bingo!  That worked.  Thanks.

		cheers,

			Rolf

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