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compileLaTeX: Compiles a LaTeX file

Description

Compiles a LaTeX file to either PDF or DVI.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'default':
compileLaTeX(filename, path=NULL, format=c("pdf", "dvi"), clean=FALSE, quiet=TRUE,
  texinputs=NULL, ..., outPath=".", verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

filename, path
The filename and (optional) path of the LaTeX document to be compiled. Only *.tex and *.ltx filename extensions are allowed.
format
A character string specifying the output format.
clean, quiet, texinputs
Additional arguments passed to texi2dvi.
...
Not used.
outPath
The output and working directory.
verbose
See Verbose.

Value

  • Returns the pathname of the generated (PDF or DVI) document.

Supported filename extensions

Internally texi2dvi is used, which in turn uses Sys.which("texi2dvi") if available. Most known implementation of the latter will only recognize LaTeX documents with filename extensions *.tex and *.ltx (case sensitive). (Any other filenames will be compiled with 'texinfo', which is not a LaTeX compiler.)

See Also

Internally, texi2dvi is used. To compile Sweave LaTeX documents, compileSweave().