[R] latex{Hmisc} cannot find xdvi on MAC OS X

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Clearly its not the same but the workaround is the same.  Just
use file="" to see the .tex file or file="myfile.tex" followed by
manual processing. with pdflatex or other tex engine to get
final output.

On Jan 23, 2008 9:44 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > I don't use Mac but a workaround to this type of
> > problem was discussed just recently here:
> >
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-January/151524.html
> >
>
> Thanks, I actually remember reading that thread.  However, I'm
> not sure it's exactly the same problem in that, in my student's
> case, everything works up to to point of calling xdvi.
>
> I can probably help her with a workaround involving running latex
> manually, but will need to go back to the help page to remind
> myself how to find out which LaTeX packages are in use.  I
> remember and example in one of them.
>
>
>
> > On Jan 23, 2008 9:22 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I am posting this on behalf of a student in my class.  I have been
> >> introducing them to R.
> >>
> >> I suspect that the problem I need help with is not so much an R
> >> issue, but a MAC config issue, but I don't have enough MAC
> >> experience to know what to do.
> >>
> >> Anyway, on to the problem.  We are using Frank Harrell's Hmisc
> >> and Design packages.  This student also wishes to use the latex
> >> formatting facilities provided in those packages so she has installed
> >> LaTeX.
> >>
> >> When she does something like latex(describe(dataframe)), the latex
> >> file is produced, the dvi file is successfully written but then
> >> the error "sh: line 1: xdvi: command not found" appears.
> >>
> >> I started a terminal and a "which xdvi" returned the path
> >> where it found xdvi.  So, it appears that xdvi is in the
> >> PATH.
> >>
> >> My apologies, I forgot to get her sessionInfo() but I think
> >> she is running R 2.6.?
> >>
>
>
> --
> Kevin E. Thorpe
> Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
> Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
> Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
> email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.6057
>