Dear Simon,
> -Original Message-
> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org]
> Sent: March-16-15 3:57 PM
> To: j...@mcmaster.ca
> Cc: Berend Hasselman; r-sig-mac@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex
>
>
> > On Mar 16, 2015, at 3:43 PM, John Fox w
> On Mar 16, 2015, at 3:43 PM, John Fox wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've now implemented Simon's solution, setting the path in the .onLoad()
> function of the Rcmdr package and resetting it to its pre-existing value in
> .onUnload(). This seems to work fine for me and, I hope, will be a more
>
Note that it not just MacTex which uses /usr/texbin. /usr/texbin is a
link to /Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin which is an
/etc/alternatives scheme to manage multiple TeX distributions which used
(prior to Yosemite, at least) to be controlled by a Systems Preferences
widget. See htt
Dear all,
I've now implemented Simon's solution, setting the path in the .onLoad()
function of the Rcmdr package and resetting it to its pre-existing value in
.onUnload(). This seems to work fine for me and, I hope, will be a more robust
solution.
Thanks again to everyone for their help.
John
Dear Berend and Simon,
I've now tried Berend's solution and it appears to work fine: If necessary, I
add /usr/texbin to the path when the Rcmdr GUI starts up and restore the path
to its previous state when it closes.
I agree that Simon's solution will be more flexible since it should work if
p
On 16 Mar 2015, at 13:48, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Gabor,
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Gábor Csárdi [mailto:csardi.ga...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: March-16-15 12:39 PM
>> To: John Fox
>> Cc: Simon Urbanek; R-SIG-Mac
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex
>>
>> John,
>>
>> my guess
John,
> On 16-03-2015, at 18:53, John Fox wrote:
>
> Dear Berend,
> ….
>>
>> For what it’s worth: I have the following code in the .First function in
>> ~/.Rprofile:
>> (R 3.1.3 on OS X Yosemite)
>>
>>if( .Platform$GUI == "AQUA" ) {
>># this appends /usr/local/bin to what is alread
Dear Berend,
> -Original Message-
> From: Berend Hasselman [mailto:b...@xs4all.nl]
> Sent: March-16-15 1:27 PM
> To: j...@mcmaster.ca
> Cc: Simon Urbanek; r-sig-mac@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex
>
>
> > On 16-03-2015, at 17:25, John Fox wrote:
> >
> > De
> On Mar 16, 2015, at 12:25 PM, John Fox wrote:
>
> Dear Simon,
>
> Thanks for this, and to the others who responded to my question. The FAQ and
> Matt Denwood's response jogged my memory, and reminded me that I encountered
> this problem before.
>
> In this case, I don't see a good solution
Dear Gabor,
> -Original Message-
> From: Gábor Csárdi [mailto:csardi.ga...@gmail.com]
> Sent: March-16-15 12:39 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: Simon Urbanek; R-SIG-Mac
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex
>
> John,
>
> my guess is that on OSX, >95% of the users have https://tug.org/
> On 16-03-2015, at 17:25, John Fox wrote:
>
> Dear Simon,
>
> Thanks for this, and to the others who responded to my question. The FAQ and
> Matt Denwood's response jogged my memory, and reminded me that I encountered
> this problem before.
>
> In this case, I don't see a good solution, but
John,
my guess is that on OSX, >95% of the users have https://tug.org/mactex/,
which seems to have pdflatex in /usr/texbin. If it is not there, then most
likely the user does not have pdflatex installed, and you can give a note
or warning about it.
If you want to be sure, you can check other tex
Dear Simon,
Thanks for this, and to the others who responded to my question. The FAQ and
Matt Denwood's response jogged my memory, and reminded me that I encountered
this problem before.
In this case, I don't see a good solution, but I'll think about the problem
some more.
Without providing
On Mar 15, 2015, at 6:29 PM, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Jordan,
>
> I'm not looking for an R package, I'm looking for the pdflatex program.
In a Terminal session pdflatex does not appear to be on the bash path:
my-computer-name:~ myusername$ which pdflatex
# Nothing
Whereas in an R.app session (
John,
see R for Mac FAQ 10.13: I get “command not found” in the GUI yet it works in
the Terminal – why?
Cheers,
Simon
> On Mar 15, 2015, at 6:21 PM, John Fox wrote:
>
> Dear Ian,
>
> Thanks for this. Please see below:
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Ian Gow [mailto:iand...@gmail.c
John:
It might be useful to see how TeX editors (TeXShop, TeXWorks, Texpad, etc.) do
this. I guess if there’s a way, these programs would use it.
Other software I have seen use a “look in all the usual locations” approach to
solve a similar problem.
Finally, I can find a few using locate. It s
"John Fox" writes:
> Dear Jordan,
>
> I'm not looking for an R package, I'm looking for the pdflatex program.
Isn't there an R package which requires latex? You might find one and
check how it is done there? knitr[1] comes to mind?
Please post your findings here as it is an interesting question
On 15 Mar 2015, at 23:21, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Ian,
>
> Thanks for this. Please see below:
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Ian Gow [mailto:iand...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: March-15-15 5:07 PM
>> To: John Fox
>> Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex
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