On Aug 20, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Berend Hasselman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 20-08-2012, at 20:25, Paul Ossenbruggen wrote: > >>> I downloaded and installed the big MacTex.pkg and MacTeXtras package >>> and checked it out (http://tug.org/mactex/). It works fine. The TeX >>> Distribution file (Systems Preferences) has TeXLive-2012 Intel 4 shown with >>> a button. >>> >>> "exams" does not work as it suppose to. >> >> The Error: >> >>> sol <- exams(myexam) >> Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : >> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed. >>> sol >> [1] 262.609 >> > > Your example was > > myexam <- list( > + "boxplots", > + c("tstat", "ttest", "confint"), > + c("regression", "anova"), > + "scatterplot", > + "relfreq" > + ) > sol <- exams(myexam) > > I have run thus after installing package exams. > It fails the same way with the error message > > Error in texi2dvi(out_tex[j], pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE, quiet = quiet) : > Running 'texi2dvi' on 'plain1.tex' failed. > > >> I tried the following suggestions to overcome the following "No entry >> in PATH for /usr/texbin." >> >> #1 Terminal output: >> >> PJO-MacBook-Pro:~ PJO$ echo $PATH >> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin > > Looks ok. > So are you running R in Terminal? Note that the PATHs are entirely different depending how you run R (see Mac FAQ). Cheers, Simon > When I run exams(myexam,quiet=FALSE) the same error message appears as in > your case. > 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 > > I have the full MacTeX2012 installed. > So I don't know what's wrong. Maybe you should contact the author of the > package. > > > Berend > > _______________________________________________ > 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
