[OS X TeX] How to make aquamacs find Sweave without needing to specify location

[Maarten Sneep]

On 21 nov 2008, at 15:40, Christopher David Desjardins wrote:

> When I want to use Sweave currently I need to do the following:
>
> \usepackage{/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf/ 
> Sweave}
>
> How can I set up aquamacs so that all I need to do is this?
>
> \usepackage{Sweave}


In the terminal:

mkdir -P ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
cd ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf/Sweave

This makes a symbolic link to the package so that if you update the R  
application, tex will find the updated version as well. I took the  
liberty of placing Sweave in the latex tree, as your syntax seems to  
indicate that usage. This tree is searched without index files, so  
there is no need for mktexlsr calls.

Maarten