On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: > Simon, > >> both are entirely irrelevant - run >> system("pdflatex --version") >> in R - that is the only thing that counts. If it shows an error, then you >> don't have pdflatex on your PATH which would be the problem. As a side note, >> you are showing two separate TeX packages which may not help you to find out >> what breaks in your setup in general ... > > > thanks for the hint. Unfortunately: > > system("pdflatex --version") > /bin/sh: pdflatex: command not found > > doing a simple > > PATH=$PATH:/user/texbin > > fixed it if I use R and package.skeleton() from the terminal. If I use the R > gui (from the standard R 2.13.0 CRAN download) it still does not find > pdflatex and does not build a usable package skeleton. > > In any case, your hit solved my issue. Now, how do I set the path for the R > gui? >
Well, the R way regardless of where you are is to use .Renviron - that works anywhere including the shell and the GUI. What you set there is really up to you - you can set R_PDFLATEXCMD to be on the safe side or you can set PATH instead. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac