R Sweave: NO TeX installation detected

r installation sweave miktex
user9084595 picture user9084595 · Dec 20, 2017 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

I've tried searching on google to fix this, with very minimal helpful solutions.

I have installed, Miktex, R and R studio. I would like to use Sweave to create PDF documents in Miktex. Everytime I open my .Rnw file, it gives a warning at the top which reads "No TeX installation detected. Please install TeX before compiling"

When I look for pdflatex on my system with the command Sys.which("pdflatex") it returns ""

Does anyone know how to fix this? ANYTHING at all at this point would be useful.

Answer

JBGruber picture JBGruber · Dec 20, 2017

Usually Rstudio finds the correct path to your Latex installation automatically. In your case that doesn't seem to be the case. After making sure Miktex is installed correctly (have you opened it and compiled a simple file?) you can set the pdflatex path manually:

Sys.setenv(PATH = paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"), "C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64", sep=.Platform$path.sep))

This is the path to my pdflatex.exe file, yours might live somewhere else.

You will have to run this every time you restart RStudio. Adding the path to pdflatex.exe to your PATH variable in Windows should make this permanent but I haven't tested that. Go to System Properties, click on Environment Variables, then on Path and then Edit. Then just enter the path to your pdflatex.exe:

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