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87668 fails on Windows 10 with "pdflatex not found"

5 messages · Avraham Adler, Duncan Murdoch, Sebastian Meyer

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Avraham Adler
# 
I see there have been a number of tweaks to the document build
recently (87650, 87654, 87658, 97660, 97661, etc.)

I tried building 87668 today on Windows 10 and received the error
below. Is this related?

Thank you,

Avi

building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
processing 'displaylist.Rnw'
Error: compiling TeX file 'displaylist.tex' failed with message:
pdflatex is not available
Execution halted
building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
processing 'parallel.Rnw'
Error: compiling TeX file 'parallel.tex' failed with message:
pdflatex is not available
Execution halted
building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
Error: running Sweave on vignette
'C:/RDevel/avraham/R/trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
failed with message:
 chunk 2
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
  pdflatex is not available
Execution halted
make[2]: *** [Makefile.win:99: vignettes] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:345: vignettes] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:395: distribution] Error 2
Duncan Murdoch
# 
The builder runs tools::texi2pdf() on the vignettes.  Does that give the 
same error for you?  Do earlier revisions work?

Duncan Murdoch
On 2025-01-29 2:20 p.m., Avraham Adler wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
# 
Sorry, that misses a step. You should try

   R CMD Sweave --pdf displaylist.Rnw

which runs it through Sweave to make displaylist.tex and then tries to 
run texi2pdf() on that.

Duncan Murdoch
On 2025-01-29 3:00 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Sebastian Meyer
# 
Am 29.01.25 um 20:20 schrieb Avraham Adler:
To Rd2pdf, yes, mostly bug fixes for some rare usages. Some more changes 
are in the making, also for texi2pdf (but that has not been touched yet).
Thanks for checking, it shouldn't be. I doubt the error is related to 
the Rd2pdf changes as that isn't involved in building the vignettes. You 
could try an older revision or maybe R-patched or render a minimal LaTeX 
document using tools::texi2pdf(), to see if the error isn't just related 
to your LaTeX setup. The error suggests that whatever program is set to 
be PDFLATEX on your system, usually pdflatex, cannot be found: smells 
like a PATH issue.

Best regards,

	Sebastian Meyer
Avraham Adler
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 3:18?PM Sebastian Meyer <seb.meyer at fau.de> wrote:
Thank you, all. Yes, this was a user error on my part. I have two
computers on which I build R, and I used the wrong mapping file when
setting up the gcc and miktex links. So, pdflatex was not where I told
it to be, precisely as described.

Thank you again!

Avi