[R-SIG-Mac] building a package on a Mac: pdflatex

[Prof Brian Ripley]

And note too that this is looking first for a script texi2dvi.  If you 
have that, *it* will look for pdflatex, possibly already knowing where 
to look.

Also note that both the usual texi2dvi and tools::texi2dvi will 
consult environment variables such as PDFLATEX.

If you have a standard Mac TeX installation such as MacTeX, it should 
contain texi2dvi.  So this seems to be entirely a path problem.

On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Federico,
>
> both are entirely irrelevant - run
> system("pdflatex --version")
> in R - that is the only thing that counts. If it shows an error, then you don't have pdflatex on your PATH which would be the problem. As a side note, you are showing two separate TeX packages which may not help you to find out what breaks in your setup in general ...
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
>
>> On 5 Jul 2011, at 10:44, Federico Calboli wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> My comment is, pdflatex *is* availiable:
>>>
>>> $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6 21 Oct  2010 pdflatex -> pdftex
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6 21 Oct  2010 pdflatex -> pdftex
>>
>> Before anyone asks:
>>
>> $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls /usr/texbin/pdflatex
>> /usr/texbin/pdflatex
>>
>> so that's not the issue.
>>
>> bw
>>
>> F
>>
>>
>>
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