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papaja (Preparing APA Journal Articles) is an R package that provides document formats to produce complete APA manuscripts from RMarkdown-files (PDF and Word documents) and helper functions that facilitate reporting statistics, tables, and plots.
https://frederikaust.com/papaja_man/
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Failed to compile .tex #151

Closed PenelopeLQ closed 6 years ago

PenelopeLQ commented 7 years ago

Hello,

First of all, thank you all for the good work! I'm new to papaja but it already seems to be a powerful package. I managed to knit my text into a docx file and everything looked fine. However, I could not produce the pdf file and it seems to be stuck at this step and gives the error message: sh: pdflatex: command not found Error: Failed to compile Papaja_test.tex. Execution halted

I'm using R 3.4.0 and RStudio 1.0.143. I downloaded the latest MacTex and removed previous versions of LaTex as well. My system is a MacOs El Capitan, which might have caused the problem according to this: http://www.tug.org/mactex/elcapitan.html and this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/271221/texmaker-command-not-found-on-macos-el-capitan . But I'm not able to solve the problem.

It may be some very simple mistake, but I would really appreciate your help here.

Thanks!

crsh commented 7 years ago

Hi Penelope,

this problem is really unrelated to papaja, but a problem between your MacTeX installation and rmarkdown. Try opening the terminal and entering pdflatex -v? If that gives information on the installed version of pdfTeX it would seem that RStudio is looking for pdflatex in the wrong place. I read somewhere that reinstalling RStudio after upgrading MacTeX can help. Otherwise try setting up a symbolic link to the correct location as detailed here.

Good luck!