[R-SIG-Mac] sh: convert: command not found

[Simon Urbanek]

> On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:51 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 24 Oct 2014, at 15:03 , Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
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>> I think it's better without so it is inherited implicitly, i.e.
>> system(paste0("PATH=",shQuote(Sys.getenv("PATH"))," which pdflatex"))
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> OK, if it works, it works. The thing that worried me slightly is that standard unix logic is that 
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> 	FOO=bar baz
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> sets FOO in the environment of baz, and it was not obvious to me that setting PATH= affects the _shell_ while it is looking for baz. (This might be documented somewhere in POSIX?).
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Aye - my bad. It works for which because that's where PATH is interpreted, but if you replaced it with PATH=... pdflatex if wouldn't find pdflatex.

Thanks,
S



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