[Bioc-devel] texi2dvi error on package build

[Dan Tenenbaum]

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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