[Bioc-devel] Packages failing Development build due to LaTex problem in .Rnw vignette

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Yes, it was just fixed in R-devel, cf.
https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18443.

/Henrik

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 7:38 AM Lluís Revilla <lluis.revilla using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rory,
>
> There was a recent change in R devel (
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html):
>  - sessionInfo() records (and by default prints) the system time zone as
> part of the locale information.
> It was reported a couple of days ago in the R-devel mailing list by Henrik
> Bengtsson, that time zones with underscores caused problems which seems to
> be your case with the New_York time zone.
> This will probably be fixed at the R core level.
>
> The other option would be to set the local time to another timezone (you or
> the Bioconductor core team).
>
> Best,
>
> Lluís
>
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 16:01, Rory Stark via Bioc-devel <
> bioc-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> > My packages are failing in the Development build due to something going
> > wrong processing the .Rnw vignettes. Looking around I see a number of other
> > packages with similar errors.
> >
> > They mostly include this error:
> >
> > LaTeX errors:
> > ! Missing $ inserted.
> > <inserted text>
> >                 $
> > l.4064   \item Time zone America/New_
> >                                      York
> > ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode.
> >
> >
> > although the details differ on each platform.
> >
> > Something has changed in the environment (headers?) that I can't quite
> > track down (the source documents have not changed). Is this a known issue?
> > Any suggestions on resolving it?
> >
> > Rory
> >
> >
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