. I also have an issue on the Mac getting latex(describe(iris)) to work. I get the .tex file but this error:
> latex(describe(iris)) This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (/var/folders/AJ/AJjttUSSFdSi1HiInJZyY++++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpY5vKOM/ file10d63af1.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded. (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls Document Class: report 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/relsize.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/ geometry.cfg)) No file file10d63af1.aux. [1] (./file10d63af1.aux) ) Output written on file10d63af1.dvi (1 page, 4264 bytes). Transcript written on file10d63af1.log. sh: xdvi: command not found For LaTeX installation I used MacTeX 2007 live, which places files in a way that will allow multiple TeX installations. I sometimes have problems with TeX from the command line, but not with TeXShop which is the GUI that comes with the bundle. Where TeX gets installed for the Mac is described here: http://www.tug.org/mactex/ and http://www.tug.org/mactex/whatgetsinstalledwhere.html Finally, in the .tex file created above, several % were not escaped (I had to do that manually), and the text style {\smaller } is not on my TeX installation. \footnotesize is. Also I had to guess at the some of the packages required to get the latex to compile (e.g., setspacing). But otherwise, pretty dang nifty. -Dave -- David C. Airey, Ph.D. Pharmacology Research Assistant Professor Center for Human Genetics Research Member Vanderbilt University Medical Center ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.