pdflatex not found! Not building PDF manual.

Dennis,

Do you have a TeX installation on your Mac?

pdflatex is typically installed with TeX, which for macOS is usually via MacTeX:

   https://tug.org/mactex/

Once you have that installed, you should be good to go, but if you are currently running an interactive R session, you will likely need to exit that, and then after installing MacTex, restart your R session.

You will also end up with a TeX folder in your Applications folder, where supporting apps will reside, including the TeX Live utility, which can be used to update the TeX installation periodically.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


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Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] pdflatex not found! Not building PDF manual.


Hello:

Running "devtools::check_win_devel()", I got, "pdflatex not found!
Not building PDF manual." "sessionInfo()" below.

Suggestions?
Thanks,
Spencer Graves




sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.3.1


Matrix products: default
BLAS:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib


LAPACK:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;
LAPACK version 3.11.0


locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8


time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal


attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base


loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] miniUI_0.1.1.1 compiler_4.3.2 promises_1.2.1 Rcpp_1.0.12


[5] stringr_1.5.1 callr_3.7.3 later_1.3.2
fastmap_1.1.1
[9] mime_0.12 R6_2.5.1 curl_5.2.0
htmlwidgets_1.6.4
[13] tibble_3.2.1 desc_1.4.3 profvis_0.3.8 shiny_1.8.0
[17] pillar_1.9.0 rlang_1.1.3 utf8_1.2.4 cachem_1.0.8
[21] stringi_1.8.3 httpuv_1.6.14 fs_1.6.3 pkgload_1.3.4
[25] memoise_2.0.1 cli_3.6.2 magrittr_2.0.3 ps_1.7.6
[29] processx_3.8.3 digest_0.6.34 rstudioapi_0.15.0 xtable_1.8-4
[33] remotes_2.4.2.1 devtools_2.4.5 lifecycle_1.0.4 vctrs_0.6.5
[37] glue_1.7.0 urlchecker_1.0.1 sessioninfo_1.2.2 pkgbuild_1.4.3
[41] fansi_1.0.6 purrr_1.0.2 pkgconfig_2.0.3 tools_4.3.2
[45] usethis_2.2.3 ellipsis_0.3.2 htmltools_0.5.7