[R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

[Don MacQueen]

The generic way to open an arbitrary file with an arbitrary 
application in OS X at the command line in a shell window is

    open -a application_name file_name

quoted if there are embedded spaces. One doesn't generally have to 
give the full path to the application.

Digging into help.start() might give you some pointers.

-Don

At 10:24 AM -0600 2/29/08, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>Several people have given great advice on how to successfully use X11 on
>Mac to so we can use the dvi previewer to view latex() output from
>Hmisc.  Now after a version upgrade of X11 and X11sdk we are getting
>lots of crashes.  I noticed a Mac dvi previewer with an executable
>stored as /Applications/TeX/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop
>
>Can we bypass X11 problems and point Hmisc to this executable for dvi
>viewing?
>
>Thanks
>Frank
>
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>                       Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University
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