make check fails -- how to debug

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:32:34 +0000

I'm only trying to install the latest version on our servers for our
users.

Are you allowed to use EPEL? This seems to be the officialy supported
way of installing latest R on CentOS [1]. It might be a good idea to
ask in R-SIG-Fedora [2] instead of R-help, too.

Is this what I need to type?

The following command should more or less reproduce the test:

cd "$(mktemp -d)"

/usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/bin/R CMD build \
  --keep-empty-dirs /usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/tests/Pkgs/exSexpr

But the problem seems evident even without that.

Note: I've installed the (many) rpms for texlive so that pdflatex is
available.  Unfortunately, the same test continues to fail.  Here is
the latest log:

<...>

! LaTeX Error: File `inconsolata.sty' not found.

Not sure whether Inconsolata [3] is packaged for CentOS, but it seems
to be required to build the documentation. It might be possible to
disable the use of this font [4], but I don't understand enough LaTeX
to comment on it further.

Either way, people on R-SIG-Fedora should be able to provide better
help installing latest R on a CentOS server than me.

Best regards,
Ivan

[1] https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/README

[2] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora

[3] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/inconsolata/

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/a/34524358