Paul, The standard way to install Tex on the Mac is to use MacTex (a port of Texlive to the Mac), see http://tug.org/mactex/
You should probably install the big 2.1GB package on the front page. That should also place the tex utilities on your path (as far as I recall). Kasper On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Paul Ossenbruggen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have installed Sweave as recommended. > http://lifeasclay.wordpress.com/tag/sweave/. Placing a test.Rnw file, for > instance, in > "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/utils/Sweave" > generates test.tex files that generate pdf files with LaTeX. To be honest, > placing Rnw files seem to make sense. The "exams" package does require not > this step. It uses texi2dvi and other tools to accomplish this result. Since > I have a cursory knowledge of Mac OSX and the role that texi2dvi plays, I > cannot understand the error message obtained below. The error occurs when > executing the Example from R help(exams). > >> library(exams) > Loading required package: tools > starting httpd help server ... done >> getwd() > [1] "/Users/PJO" >> library("exams") >> options(device.ask.default = FALSE) >> >> myexam <- list( > + "boxplots", > + c("tstat", "ttest", "confint"), > + c("regression", "anova"), > + "scatterplot", > + "relfreq" > + ) >> >> sol <- exams(myexam) > Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : > Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed. > > I am running: > R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows" > Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) > > and Mac OSX Version 10.8. > > After submitting the above to r-help-request "12. texi2dvi error > "Sweave" and "exams" (Paul Ossenbruggen)", I delved further into the problem > and discovered the source of the problem: > >> exams(file = "tstat.Rnw", quiet = FALSE) > Writing to file tstat.tex > Processing code chunks with options ... > 1 : keep.source term hide > > You can now run (pdf)latex on ‘tstat.tex’ > Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : > Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed. > Output: > You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in > your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one. If you want to use > this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change > your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do). See the --help > output for more details. > > For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://www.tug.org. If > you happen to be using Debian, you can get it with this command: > apt-get install tetex-bin > > Apparently, it is a simple matter to fix the error; however, I don't > have sufficient knowledge to know how to proceed. > > I installed LaTeX using TeX Live and use TeXShop as my LaTeX driver. > A bibtex folder is stored on the path /library/texmf but TeX is not. I > suspect that I must install TeX in this folder but again unsure. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Paul > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
