David.
On Jan 26, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hello:
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> 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.)?
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> 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:
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> Sys.which("pdflatex?)
> # ""
> Sys.getenv("PATH")
> # [1] "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin?
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> However, the suggested fix did not work for me.
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> 1. How can I determine if pdflatex is installed?
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> 2. If it is, how can I find it? If it?s not, what i the recommended install procedure?
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> Thanks
> Spencer Graves
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>> 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?
>
> #####
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
> [7] base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.1.2
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David Winsemius
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