[Rd] texi2pdf doesn't find the correct MikTex installation due to erroneous Sys.which()

[Rich Calaway]

Ah, but I bet you do have that path...try 

> Sys.which("texify")
                                             texify 
"C:\\PROGRA~2\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin\\texify.exe" 
> normalizePath(Sys.which("texify"))
[1] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\texify.exe"

Cheers,

Rich Calaway
Microsoft R Product Team
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-----Original Message-----
From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Joris Meys
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:43 AM
To: r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: [Rd] texi2pdf doesn't find the correct MikTex installation due to erroneous Sys.which()

I checked after this question popped up on Stackoverflow:

https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F44785961%2Fcompile-pdf-in-rstudio-works-but-knit2pdf-does-not-work-in-r-or-rstudio&data=02%7C01%7Crichcala%40microsoft.com%7C109c2b63c17443c51ecc08d4bd83fb68%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636341821947377257&sdata=NwIyGCJSQQjf1HY6r1X9a6V9Z1XI%2F74UTEe9ritYYys%3D&reserved=0

On Windows, texi2pdf looks for the texify.exe of Miktex, but looks in a very wrong place:

> Sys.which("texify")
                                                  texify "C:\\PROGRA~1\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64\\texify.exe"

That folder is not on my computer (I have 2.9 installed), not in my path, not in my system path and I couldn't find it in my register. So it appears as if Sys.which() is looking in the wrong place.

What could cause this?

Kind regards
Joris

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