Ah yes, you're right.
The log has this error:
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
Though can't really find much online on how to resolve it.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> pdflatex appears to have run, because it exited. You should look at the tex
> log file, the problem is more likely that the latex you sent out to pdflatex
> was incomplete.
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> On December 9, 2014 8:43:02 AM PST, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>Thanks! I do get several errors though when running on Linux.
>>
>>Running your code, I get this:
>>
>>Error in system(cmd, intern = TRUE, wait = TRUE) :
>>error in running command
>>
>>Fiddling around with the code and running this:
>>
>>tmp <- matrix(1:9,3,3)
>>tmp.tex <- latex(tmp, file='tmp.tex')
>>print.default(tmp.tex)
>>tmp.dvi <- dvi(tmp.tex)
>>tmp.dvi
>>tmp.tex
>>dvips(tmp.dvi)
>>dvips(tmp.tex)
>>library(tools)
>>texi2dvi(file='tmp.tex', pdf=TRUE, clean=TRUE)
>>
>>I get this:
>>
>>Error in texi2dvi(file="tmp.tex",, :
>> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'tmp.tex' failed.
>>Messages:
>>/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex exited with bad status, quitting.
>>
>>I've read that it may have something to do with the path of pdflatex.
>>
>>Sys.which('pdflatex')
>>
>> pdflatex
>>
>>"/usr/bin/pdflatex"
>>
>>
>>Sys.which('texi2dvi')
>>
>> texi2dvi
>>
>>"/usr/bin/texi2dvi"
>>
>>> file.exists(Sys.which('texi2dvi'))
>>
>>[1] TRUE
>>
>>> file.exists(Sys.which('pdflatex'))
>>
>>[1] TRUE
>>
>>Is there a specific path I should be giving with pdflatex and/or
>>'texi2dvi to make this work?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu>
>>wrote:
>>> yes of course, and the answer is latex() in the Hmisc package.
>>> Why were you excluding it?
>>> Details follow
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
>>> The current release of the Hmisc package has this capability on
>>> Macintosh and Linux.
>>> For Windows, you need the next release 3.14-7 which is available now
>>at github.
>>>
>>> ## windows needs these lines until the new Hmisc version is on CRAN
>>> install.packages("devtools")
>>> devtools::install_github("Hmisc", "harrelfe")
>>>
>>> ## All operating systems
>>> options(latexcmd='pdflatex')
>>> options(dviExtension='pdf')
>>>
>>> ## Macintosh
>>> options(xdvicmd='open')
>>>
>>> ## Windows, one of the following
>>>
>>options(xdvicmd='c:\\progra~1\\Adobe\\Reader~1.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe')
>>> ## 32-bit windows
>>>
>>options(xdvicmd='c:\\progra~2\\Adobe\\Reader~1.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe')
>>> ## 64 bit windows
>>>
>>> ## Linux
>>> ## I don't know the xdvicmd value
>>>
>>>
>>> ## this works on all R systems
>>> library(Hmisc)
>>> tmp <- matrix(1:9,3,3)
>>> tmp.dvi <- dvi(latex(tmp))
>>> print.default(tmp.dvi) ## prints filepath of the pdf file
>>> tmp.dvi ## displays the pdf file on your screen
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Kate Ignatius
>><kate.ignat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a simple question. I know there are plenty of packages out
>>>> there that can provide code to generate a table in latex. But I was
>>>> wondering whether there was one out there where I can generate a
>>table
>>>> from my data (which ever way I please) then allow me to save it as a
>>>> pdf?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> K.
>>>>
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