On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Matthew Fero wrote:
I know this has been addressed before, but I'm not sure I understand
the prior comments.
Does the R Mac binary installer include the latex components
necessary to run the 'R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf' command? If so, where
No. See the FAQ, specifically section 2.1 and
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#TeX-suite-of-tools-for-documentation-_0028optional_0029
Note that these days the 'R Mac binary installer' contains much less
than it used to, basically just R (not Tcl/Tk for example).
should it be located, because I'm getting the error,
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 233:
/usr/texbin/pdflatex: No such file or directory". If not, any
suggestions on an easy way to install a lightweight, compatible
latex distribution?
Unfortunately the CRAN binary of R (which I presume you are using)
hardocodes the path to the TeX distribution (to values appropriate to
MacTeX). Depending on the architecture you are using, look in the
file named like
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/i386/Renviron and either
edit the file or set the appropriate environment variables
appropriately.
MacTeX is not 'lightweight' but you do need quite a lot (including
fonts) to process Rd format. So unless you install a comprehensive
distribution or have one that updates itself on the fly, you are
likely to spend a lot of time chasing down additional TeX packages.
Thanks,
Matthew
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