Did you every find a resolution to this? I have the exact same problem and have had no success solving it. I'd like to know your solution if you found one.
In R system("texi2dvi --version") texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.8) 1.34 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. At the command prompt % texi2dvi --version texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.8) 1.34 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. I can use Sweave and create LaTeX documents outside of R. But R CMD chekc pkgname gives me Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr. Hmm ... looks like a package Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE, : pdflatex is not available Error in running tools::texi2dvi You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /var/folders/We/Wevm0EqRHPC3qT+IfM76U+eiwUY/-Tmp-//RtmpuP3CAs/Rd2pdf626fdc61' texi2dvi is in my PATH at /usr/bin/texi2dvi R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) Mac OS X version 10.6.8 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Rd2pdf-and-Rd2dvi-don-t-find-texi2dvi-tp3405172p3772117.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel