Problem with package development

Thu, Jun 2, 2011 8:48 PM

This is how strange? How and from where I would know that I need to
install something pdflatex separately? Can you point some legitimate
link which says I need to install that (like Rtools?) Even this link
'http://www.math.rug.nl/~trentelman/jacob/pdflatex/pdflatex.html' do
not provide any download link.

This is my entire PATH variable in wondows (is anything less here?)
C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\i386;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Windows Live;%GTK_BASEPATH%\bin;%systemroot%\system32;%systemroot%;%systemroot%\system32\wbem;c:\program
files\common files\roxio shared\10.0\dllshared\;C:\Program
Files\MATLAB71\bin\win32;C:\LINGO10\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\Program
Files\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

Where it is incomplete? All people keep on saying
I-need-to-do-something, I-need-to-do-something,
I-need-to-do-something............ but pathetic to see anybody has
been able to point specifically I-NEED-TO-DO-WHAT-THING.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't use windows, but this error message you report:

Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE, :
pdflatex is not available
Error in running tools:: texi2dvi

strongly indicates that you need to install pdflatex, don't you think?

If you don't have non-R code (c or fortran) you can probably get away
without having the MinGW compiler tools, but you do need the rest of
the things listed in the admin manual as required for building
packages:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset

In addition, googling for "building R packages on Windows" turns up
very many detailed guides for going through the process, including
discussions of what additional software you need and how to install
it.

Sarah

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Nipesh Bajaj <bajaj141003 at gmail.com> wrote:

Still I am struggling to get some inputs from the experts here :(
Definitely We can shere our experiences once I am done (really, it
seems to me very hard nut to crack!) I strongly feel that related
documentations should be more Statistician-friendly, than some Engg.
guys

Thanks,

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:55 AM, steven mosher <moshersteven at gmail.com> wrote:

I hope you're successful because I'm having issues as well building a simple
package on
windows.? maybe when you're finished? you can share back a step by step
guide.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Nipesh Bajaj <bajaj141003 at gmail.com> wrote:

I have run R CMD check trial1 and saw an error. This says that:

* checking pdf version of manual without hyperrefs or index ?... ERROR
Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
Hmm... looks like a package
Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE, :
pdflatex is not available
Error in running tools:: texi2dvi

Does this information hwlp you to suggest something? Please let me
know what else I can provide.

Thanks,

--
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

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