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Problem with R CMD check, pdflatex

4 messages · Michael Höhle, Simon Urbanek, Berend Hasselman +1 more

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Michael Höhle
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Dear R-Sig-Mac,

Regarding Ji-Ping's problem I experienced a similar issue after having
upgraded to 2.9.0 on my Mac. The checking of the PDF manual causes
warnings and the following check of PDF version without index causes an
error.

$ tail -n 4 00check.log
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without index ... ERROR

The interesting part is that when uploading the <package>.tar.gz file to
Uwe Ligges win-builder website, the package compiles without warnings or
errors on Windows.

Furthermore, the document compiles without any errors when manually
compiling the resulting <package>-manual.pdf in the ..Rcheck folder with
pdflatex.

However, when trying to generate the manual with:

$ R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf .
Hmm ... looks like a package
Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
  <snip>
Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 228:
/usr/texbin/pdflatex: No such file or directory
Error in running pdflatex command ('/usr/texbin/pdflatex')

It appears as if the new 2.9.0 searches for pdflatex in
/usr/texbin/pdflatex

however, my pdflatex is located in e.g.

$ which pdflatex
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex

When setting up a symlink to /usr/texbin R CMD check worked fine. So the
problem appears to have to do with R looking for pdflatex in the "wrong"
place?

Best regards,

Michael



P.S. For the record:

$ which pdflatex
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex

$ latex --version
pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
C

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




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Simon Urbanek
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Michael,

CRAN R comes configured with MacTeX, see also
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-April/006129.html

One of the problems is that PATH settings on OS X differ between LS- 
started apps, shells etc., so it is in general problematic to get the  
path right in all circumstances, so currently the CRAN binary assumes  
the most common distribution.

Cheers,
Simon
On May 17, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Michael H?hle wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 17-05-2009, at 14:52, Michael H?hle wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
That would be quite an old TeX installation?
The teTeX distribution is no longer maintained.

You should consider switching to MacTeX ( http://www.tug.org/mactex/ )
It has everything you need. It's excellent.

Berend

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Mon, 18 May 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
True, but here we talking about R_PDFLATEXCMD, which is only used by 
Rd2dvi, which is AFAIK only called via R CMD and so from a shell. I 
would have thought that 'R_PDFLATEXCMD=pdflatex' (so looking on the 
path) was a better default for a binary distribution.

You can always set R_PDFLATEXCMD (or PDFLATEX) if the distributed 
binary is not right for you.

R CMD check does do a check for a workable pdflatex, but it seems it 
looks at the environment variable PDFLATEX not R_PDFLATEXCMD: I'll 
update it.