BibTeX, biblatex and biber

aidanc · Post by **aidanc** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:14 pm

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of an option that can be passed to pdflatex to avoid running bibtex. I am calling pdflatex from another program (GNU R), and the call fails with the error “I found no \bibdata command-“. The document in question is small and has no biblio. I know texniccenter has an option to not run bibtex when calling pdflatex, but this is a tick box so I can’t find out what the command line option is from there. I also can’t see the option under pdflatex –help in the command window. I am running Miktex 2.9.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Best regards,
Aidan

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Post by **josephwright** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:20 pm

I'm not clear on what you are doing. At the Command Line

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pdflatex <file>

just runs pdfLaTeX without anything else. How are you running pdfLaTeX?

aidanc · Post by **aidanc** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:35 pm

Hi Joseph,

that makes two of us

I'm running

texi2dvi("filename.tex", pdf = TRUE, texi2dvi = "pdflatex")

in the statistical package R.

I thought that this was just calling pdflatex on the file, but it's possible that it it also calls bibtex separately. I'll check if pdflatex from the command line works without error, in which case I'll know the issue is with this command in R and not with pdflatex (unfortunately I'm away from my PC now).

thanks a lot for your help!

Aidan

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