[R-SIG-Mac] Rd2dvi --pdf

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:31 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Matthew Fero wrote:
>
>> I know this has been addressed before, but I'm not sure I  
>> understand the prior comments.
>>
>> Does the R Mac binary installer include the latex components  
>> necessary to run the 'R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf' command?  If so, where
>
> No.  See the FAQ, specifically section 2.1 and
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#TeX-suite-of-tools-for-documentation-_0028optional_0029
>
> Note that these days the 'R Mac binary installer' contains much less  
> than it used to, basically just R (not Tcl/Tk for example).
>
>> should it be located, because I'm getting the error, "/Library/ 
>> Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 233: /usr/texbin/ 
>> pdflatex: No such file or directory".  If not, any suggestions on  
>> an easy way to install a lightweight, compatible latex distribution?
>
> Unfortunately the CRAN binary of R (which I presume you are using)  
> hardocodes the path to the TeX distribution (to values appropriate  
> to MacTeX).

Hmm.. this is a bug - since R 2.9.x they are supposed to be stripped  
of paths but apparently in the 2.10.1 Leopard installer they have not  
(I'll verify it at the next release to make sure they are). The only  
binaries that don't strip paths are the nightly builds as they don't  
post-process the values determined by configure (hence my assumption  
that it was a nightly build).

Thanks,
Simon





>  Depending on the architecture you are using, look in the file named  
> like /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/i386/Renviron and  
> either edit the file or set the appropriate environment variables  
> appropriately.
>
> MacTeX is not 'lightweight' but you do need quite a lot (including  
> fonts) to process Rd format.  So unless you install a comprehensive  
> distribution or have one that updates itself on the fly, you are  
> likely to spend a lot of time chasing down additional TeX packages.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matthew
>
>
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