[Tikzdevice-bugs] Running TikzDevice on Mac OS 10.6

[Mike Lawrence]

Indeed it works now, thanks!

2009/10/28 Cameron Bracken <cameron.bracken at gmail.com>:
> Hi Mike,
> I use the same system.  Are you using the GUI?  The problem, I think, is
> that the Mac GUI does not set the PATH completely.  What I suggest (this is
> what I do) is create the file ~/.Rprofile and add the following lines:
> Sys.setenv("PATH" = paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),"/usr/texbin",sep=":"))
> options(tikzMetricsDictionary = path.expand("~/.tikzMetricsDictionary"))
> This will set the path to your latex compiler and also use a global metrics
> file.  The advantage the second line is that tikzDevice will cache string
> width calculations and access them later for speed.
> Anyway, I suspect that this will fix your problem.
> Cheers,
> -Cameron
>
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> Cameron Bracken
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> University of Colorado at Boulder
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>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having troubles running TikzDevice. My OS is fresh install of Mac
>> 10.6, I'm running R 10.0, I have the 2008 MacTex distribution
>> installed and running fine, and I was able to use "tlmgr install pgf"
>> to install PGF. However, when I attempt to library(tikzDevice), I get
>> the error below despite the fact that options('latexcmd') seems to
>> properly point to "latex" as the path to the installed compiler. Help?
>>
>> Loading required package: filehash
>> filehash: Simple key-value database (2.0-1 2008-12-19)
>> tikzDevice: A Device for R Graphics Output in PGF/TikZ Format (v0.4.8)
>> Checking for a LaTeX compiler...
>>
>> Error in fun(...) :
>>
>> An appropriate LaTeX compiler could not be found.
>> Access to LaTeX is required in order for the TikZ device
>> to produce output.
>>
>> The following places were tested for a valid LaTeX compiler:
>>
>>        A pre-existing value of the global option tikzLatex
>>        The R environment variable R_LATEXCMD
>>        The R environment variable R_PDFLATEXCMD
>>        The global option latexcmd
>>        The PATH using the command latex
>>        The PATH using the command pdflatex
>>
>> If you have a working LaTeX compiler, try one of the
>> following solutions:
>>
>>        Set the path to your compiler as the value of either latexcmd or
>>        tikzLatex in .Rprofile using options().
>>
>>        Set the path to your compiler as the value of either R_LATEXCMD or
>>        R_PDFLATEXCMD in .Renviron.
>>
>>        Ensure the folder containing your compiler is included in PATH.
>>
>> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tikzDevice'
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tikzDevice'
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Lawrence
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>> Department of Psychology
>> Dalhousie University
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