“pdflatex is not available” from “R CMD check”
On Jan 26, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:
Hello: What should I do to diagnose and fix ?pdflatex is not available? from ?R CMD check? on a Mac running OS X 10.10.1 (see below for more details including sessionInfo.)? A blog on "Building R packages: missing path to pdflatex? (http://www.r-bloggers.com/building-r-packages-missing-path-to-pdflatex/ <http://www.r-bloggers.com/building-r-packages-missing-path-to-pdflatex/>) suggested the following: Sys.which("pdflatex?) # "" Sys.getenv("PATH") # [1] "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin? However, the suggested fix did not work for me. 1. How can I determine if pdflatex is installed? 2. If it is, how can I find it? If it?s not, what i the recommended install procedure? Thanks Spencer Graves ##########
R CMD check ?
... * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. * 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(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : pdflatex is not available Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : pdflatex is not available Error in running tools::texi2pdf() You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /var/folders/mh/mrm_14nx19g13lsnj9zmvwjr0000gn/T//RtmpjOTCtB/Rd2pdf1651fa89c1?
Spencer, First question would be, have you installed MacTex, which includes all the required components? If not, then visit: https://tug.org/mactex/ MacTex 2014 is the current version. There are also some Yosemite specific notes here: http://www.tug.org/mactex/yosemite.html The package should modify your $PATH upon installation, so that it includes: /usr/texbin and Sys.which("pdflatex") in the R console run from the OS X terminal should return:
Sys.which("pdflatex")
pdflatex "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" I would check: $PATH and: which pdflatex from the OS X terminal (not in an R session), just to be sure that you don't get different results there, as compared to what you are getting in R. In theory, the OS X terminal should provide the definitive response, whereas running some applications/GUI's, may not pick up (inherit) the system path. You can also check: ls /usr/texbin which contains links to the actual installation in: ls /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin to see if MacTex 2014 has been installed (it should show a large number of files and links, including pdflatex). If you have a prior version, then the path would be: ls /usr/local/texlive/YYYY/... Regards, Marc Schwartz