[R-SIG-Mac] texi2dvi error "Sweave" and "exams" (Paul Ossenbruggen)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Aug 20, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 
> On 20-08-2012, at 20:25, Paul Ossenbruggen wrote:
> 
>>> 	I downloaded and installed the big MacTex.pkg and MacTeXtras package and checked it out (http://tug.org/mactex/). It works fine. The TeX Distribution file (Systems Preferences) has TeXLive-2012 Intel 4 shown with a button. 
>>> 
>>> 	"exams" does not work as it suppose to.
>> 
>> The Error:
>> 
>>> sol <- exams(myexam)
>> Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : 
>> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed.
>>> sol
>> [1] 262.609
>> 
> 
> Your example was
> 
> myexam <- list(
> +   "boxplots",
> +   c("tstat", "ttest", "confint"),
> +   c("regression", "anova"),
> +   "scatterplot",
> +   "relfreq"
> + )
> sol <- exams(myexam)
> 
> I have run thus after installing package exams.
> It fails the same way with the error message
> 
> Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : 
> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed.
> 
> 
>> 	I tried the following suggestions to overcome the following "No entry in PATH for /usr/texbin."
>> 
>> #1 Terminal output:
>> 
>> 	PJO-MacBook-Pro:~ PJO$ echo $PATH
>> 	/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin
> 
> Looks ok.
> 

So are you running R in Terminal? Note that the PATHs are entirely different depending how you run R (see Mac FAQ).

Cheers,
Simon


> When I run exams(myexam,quiet=FALSE) the same error  message appears as in your case.
> Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : 
> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed.
> Output:
> You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
> your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
> this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
> your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
> output for more details.
> 
> For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://www.tug.org.  If
> you happen to be using Debian, you can get it with this command:
> apt-get install tetex-bin
> 
> I have the full MacTeX2012 installed.
> So I don't know what's wrong. Maybe you should contact the author of the package.
> 
> 
> Berend
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
> 
>