[Bioc-devel] texi2dvi error on package build

[Steve Piccolo]

Thanks, Dan! Turns out it was caused by having _ characters in the
vignette. I escaped these using \_, and it compiled fine.

-Steve

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Stephen Piccolo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Affiliations:
  Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah
  Division of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of
Medicine

Twitter: @stevepiccolo
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On 7/25/13 11:05 AM, "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Steve Piccolo
><stephen.piccolo at hsc.utah.edu> wrote:
>> I am trying to build my package locally using the following command:
>>
>> R CMD build SCAN.UPC
>>
>> I'm getting the following generic error. I looked for the log file but
>> haven't been able to find it. I'm sure I am doing something silly that
>>is
>> causing this. Any tips on troubleshooting this error would be greatly
>> appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> * checking for file ŒSCAN.UPC/DESCRIPTION¹ ... OK
>> * preparing ŒSCAN.UPC¹:
>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>> * installing the package to re-build vignettes
>> * creating vignettes ... ERROR
>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,
>> :
>>   Running Œtexi2dvi¹ on ŒSCAN.vignette.tex¹ failed.
>> Messages:
>> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex exited with bad status, quitting.
>> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: see SCAN.vignette.log for errors.
>
>After installing the package, go to inst/doc and run
>texi2dvi --pdf SCAN.vignette.Rnw
>This should produce the SCAN.vignette.log file referred to here, you
>can look at it and it may provide some clues.
>
>Dan
>
>
>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
>> Execution halted
>>
>>
>>
>> My version info:
>>
>> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (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   base
>>
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