R and RStudio incompatibility with Yosemite Mac OS X 10.10
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There is currently a bug (or feature?) in the current version of Yosemite (OS X 10.10) that messes with the passing of environmental variables to programs launched from Finder (as pointed out by Adam Maxwell).
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PATH variables are not passed properly to R.app or RStudio.app. You may end up seeing errors such as the following:
Until Apple releases a fix to this, the easy workaround is to launch the desired application from the command-line (terminal). For example to launchError in system("pdflatex", intern = TRUE) : error in running command sh: pdflatex: command not foundError in system("convert", intern = TRUE) : error in running command sh: convert: command not found
R, you can instead run
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