Okay, i did compare the versions of texi2dvi within R and the shell, they are both the same.
Regarding the environmental variabels, this is what printenv gave me: TERM_PROGRAM=iTerm.app TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash TMPDIR=/var/folders/3B/3BhLCRj+FISLJAbkj65bUU+++TI/-Tmp-/ Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-N5Bzur/Render COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-p1c1Db/Listeners __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:3 PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/:/Applications/GMT//bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin PWD=/usr/bin EDITOR=mate -w NETCDFHOME=/usr/local/ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 COLORFGBG=0;15 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-VKiS22/org.x:0 _=/usr/bin/printenv and this is what Sys.getenv(c("PATH", "TEX")) gave me: PATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin" TEX "" I dont't really know my way around system variables but i hope that this helps. I'm open for any suggestions ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel