#COMPILE LATEX FILE MANUALS#
#COMPILE LATEX FILE PDF#

The three possible approaches all have their quirks. Supplied by macOS) is that it will not work correctly for paths whichĬontain spaces, nor if the absolute path to a file would contain

One that was present with texi2dvi version 4.8 (as Unix-alikes and quite a number of bugs have been seen, some of which There are various versions of the texi2dvi script on

#COMPILE LATEX FILE PDF#

PDF file in the current working directory (and maybe other files, Used for the side effect of creating a dvi or

#COMPILE LATEX FILE MANUALS#

The argument index = FALSE is provided toĪllow package manuals to be made when this happens: it uses emulation. To fail (particularly when using the hyperref LaTeX package)Įven on valid input. Occasionally indices contain special characters which cause indexing Not work correctly try R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation. Several issues have been seen with released versions, so if yours does Variable TEXI2DVI or if that is unset, from a value chosen whenĪ shell script texi2dvi is part of GNU's texinfo. R_TEXI2DVICMD, and the default for that is set from environment The default option for texi2dvi is set from environment variable ‘ R_HOME/share/texmf’ and finally the default path.Īnalogous changes are made to BIBINPUTS and BSTINPUTS Then elements of argument texinputs, then The TeX search path used is first theĮxisting TEXINPUTS setting (or the current directory if unset), In the TEXINPUTS path, so R style files such as ‘ Sweave’Īnd ‘ Rd’ will be found. ItĮnsures that the ‘ R_HOME/share/texmf’ directory is Rd2pdf script (used for package reference manuals). Specifically those generated from vignettes and by the Texi2pdf is a wrapper for the common case ofĭespite the name, this is used in R to compile LaTeX files, NULL or a character vector of paths to add to Otherwise emulate the script with system2 calls (whichĬan be selected by the value 'emulation').

The default (selectedįor a program or script named ‘ texi2dvi’ on the path and

$compile latex file$

Used to compile a TeX file to dvi or PDF. No output unless an error occurs.Ĭharacter string (or NULL). The default dvi file ( texi2dvi command line option -pdf). If TRUE, a PDF file is produced instead of Texi2dvi ( file, pdf = FALSE, clean = FALSE, quiet = TRUE, texi2dvi = getOption ( 'texi2dvi' ), texinputs = NULL, index = TRUE ) texi2pdf ( file, clean = FALSE, quiet = TRUE, texi2dvi = getOption ( 'texi2dvi' ), texinputs = NULL, index = TRUE )Ĭharacter string.

Compile latex file