As I have had various issues with latex lately I will comment a little.  For
developers, I think it is fair to say that R-latex interaction has become
more important of late, owing to documentation capabiliites and
requirements.  Recently Herve added a comment to various vignettes

% With MikTeX 2.9, using pstricks also requires using auto-pst-pdf or
running
% pdflatex will fail. Note that using auto-pst-pdf requires to set
environment
% variable MIKTEX_ENABLEWRITE18=t on Windows, and to set shell_escape = t in
% texmf.cnf for Tex Live on Unix/Linux/Mac.

which says a lot.  This mentions a few things I have not been directly
concerned with: write18 (?), pstricks, auto-pst-pdf and so on.

Witnessing build error messages like

Output written on parody.pdf (8 pages, 107975 bytes).
Transcript written on parody.log.
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
  unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'parody.tex'
Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
Execution halted

is somewhat confusing and might need to go to R-devel, as "unable to run"
seems not quite right.  It ran, and pdf was generated, but untoward events
did occur, and demise of the build is probably rightly called for.

I bit the bullet and asked for installation of TexLive 2011.  I then had to
get rid of various .sty files in my TEXINPUTS that were no longer up to
date.  I followed the shell_escape setting noted by Herve, in a personal
texmf.cnf that can be identified through the TEXMFCNF environment variable
-- be sure to have : as a suffix to the value.

No more "Execution halted".  I am free to deal with my other problems now.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:12 AM, James W. MacDonald
<jmacdon@med.umich.edu>wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
>
> On 9/15/2011 9:03 AM, Andreas Heider wrote:
>
>> Dear mailing list,
>> I've setup everything in my local package derectory including Sweave
>> vignette and a PDF version of it.
>> The "Sweave" command runs fine, so does checking the package directly from
>> the source directory.
>> However, when I try to BUILD from the source directory (via R CMD BUILD
>> directory) it throws me an error that texi2dvi stopped with error.
>>
>> What is wrong? How can I find out?
>>
>
> Without some output, nobody can tell what is wrong. And this is really an
> R-help and possibly an R-devel question.
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>> Thanks in advacne, Andreas
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