Dear all,
This is my first post to the mailing list. I asked this question a little
while ago on stackoverflow but did not get an answer. Please allow me to
ask again.
I have R set up on both Windows7 and kUbuntu12 machines. On Windows, I
happen to have both MikTeX and TeXlive available (and both work).
How could I instruct R to call TeXlive instead of MikTeX?
Both MikTeX and TeXlive are on my Windows PATH.
This is what I get now:
Sys.which("pdflatex")
pdflatex
"C:\\PROGRA~2\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin\\pdflatex.exe"
I tried to set pdflatex via Sys.setenv
Sys.setenv(pdflatex="C:/texlive/2012/bin/win32")
but it doesn't seem to work in that Sys.which("pdflatex") returns MikTeX
again: (I also tried with PDFLATEX or "PDFLATEX" in the above)
The closest I've got to setting the path to pdflatex is by clearing the
PATH and including TeXlive thus:
Sys.setenv("PATH" = "C:/texlive/2012/bin/win32")
This radical move apparently gives me the desired path:
Sys.which("pdflatex")
pdflatex
"C:\\texlive\\2012\\bin\\win32\\pdflatex.exe"
but R still cannot find the TeXlive executables.
For instance, running texi2dvi:
tools::texi2pdf(Out)
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet =
quiet,
:
pdflatex is not available
For information, my PATH shows (edited):
Sys.getenv("PATH")
[1] "C:\\ ... ;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MiKTeX
2.9\\miktex\\bin\\;C:\\texlive\\2012\\bin\\win32;..."
Changing the order of MikTeX and TeXlive in the PATH did not help R pick up
TeXlive.
Suggestions will be appreciated,
Patrick.
For reference, my question on stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15033615/setting-up-r-to-pick-up-texlive-rather-than-miktex-on-windows
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