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

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Federico Calboli
<f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:01, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> while it was entirely a path problem, the latest (2010) MacTex does *not* contain texi2dvi:
>
> which texi2dvi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi
>
> and
>
> $:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls texi*
> texindy
>
> but no texi2dvi. I did ask other mactex users and they also do not have texi2dvi

Well, I have texi2dvi and I use MacTex and I am on a fresh install
(new laptop) of snow leopard + latest mactex.  I am using the big
1.6GB "all of mactex" package you can download.

Kasper


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>> 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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