texi2dvi() error when running a .Rnwscript with LaunchControl

Question

I\'m trying to compile a knitr script on a timer using LaunchControl (a launchd GUI for scheduling cron-like jobs on OSX).

I have a dispatcher.R script that does th

Answer 1

To run a .Rnw file using LaunchControl for task scheduling, create the following files in the same directory. Then, run the *.sh script in the scheduler. Voila! The problem I was encountering in my original post was the LaunchControl doesn't (by default, at least) read ~/.bash_profile, so adding the PATH variable into the .sh script resolves this.

1) Your *.Rnw script

This is any knitr script that you can compile without issue from RStudio.

2) A *.R script

#!/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/Rscript
library("knitr")
setwd("~/some_directory")
knit2pdf("yourscript.Rnw", output = "yourscript.tex")

3) A *.sh script

Make sure that you have the PATH variable to your LaTeX installation.

#! /bin/bash 

PATH="/usr/texbin:${PATH}"
export PATH

Rscript yourscript_dispatcher.R

This solution works on OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 on R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31).