[Bioc-devel] texmf error on 7 packages on devel winXP build nodes

[Keith Satterley]

I've been checking the build reports at

http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/1.9/

and I notice that the following packages, which have exactly three errors, on 
the three Windows XP nodes (walpole,matrix1 & matrix2), all have a similar error 
message as shown below:
=================
* creating vignettes ... ERROR
entering extended mode

C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls:17: Emergency stoptexi2dvi: pdflatex exited 
with bad status, quitting.
texi2dvi: see "ABarray.log" for errors.
buildVignettes(dir = '.')
Error in texi2dvi(file = bft, pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet = quiet) :
	running texi2dvi on 'ABarray.tex' failed
Execution halted
=================
The log file refers to being unable to find Sweave.sty.

The error does not occur on the Windows Server 2003 node(lemming).

The packages that I noticed were:

ABarray
convert
afflmGUI
EBarrays
goTools
limma
limmaGUI

I was having the same problem on my machine
 >sessionInfo()
R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-14 r38872)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets" 
"base"
 >
(Also I have the same problems with R-2.3.1)
and found that if I placed a copy of Sweave.sty (copied from 
C:\R\R-x.y.z\share\texmf ) into the doc subdirectory of my package (in mycase 
affylmGUI and limmaGUI), the error was no longer generated and vignettes were 
created.

Is this the recommended solution or am I doing something wrong with some other 
part of my packages? Or is there perhaps some configuration issue with R that 
should be addressed.

Not sure if this is an R-devel question or Bioc-devel, but since the Bioc XP 
nodes show the problem, I thought it best to start on this list,

cheers,

Keith

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Keith Satterley
Bioinformatics Division
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research