[R-SIG-Mac] problem with sweave

[Christophe Dutang]

Thanks for your quick answer

Le 26 juin 09 à 09:06, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
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> You put it in your executable search path and I wrote 'input search  
> path'.  That's not 'following'!

In fact I wondered how TeX could use the PATH variable...

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>
> You've not told us what TeX you have installed (and none comes with  
> Mac OS X and there is a choice of third-party ones).  So the  
> following is a guess based on the fact that R's utiities work (and  
> they do set the input search path).

Yes it was not very clear. I use texlive 2008 coming from the latest  
MacTex "pack".

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>
> You need to manipulate the environment variable TEXINPUTS.   
> Something like
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> export TEXINPUTS="/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current/ 
> Resources/share/texmf:"
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> (You may well not just be able to append to TEXINPUTS as set, as it  
> may or may not have a trailing colon.)
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> The reason for the caution is that there are TeX distributions in  
> which this does not work, and other ways are needed to set the input  
> search path -- and that used for R on Windows is one of them.

Thanks it works fine now, both the makefile and the R Sweave command.


Christophe


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Christophe Dutang
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