I did run it directly from command line, and this gives me the PDF just
fine.
But when building the package, it stops because of error, even so I am sure
it is doing the same stuff.
When I want to build the package I need it to work at build time.

2011/9/16 Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>

> On 09/15/2011 11:56 PM, Andreas Heider wrote:
>
>> You are right Vincent,
>> I get the very same error!
>>
>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,
>>  :
>>   unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'XYZ'
>> Calls:<Anonymous>  ->  texi2pdf ->  texi2dvi
>> Execution halted
>>
>> But I am quite confused about how to solve this problem. It sounds kind of
>> strange to me.
>> Why does the call fail? The pdf is generated fine!
>>
>
> Having Stangle'd the Rnw file, you can also run texi2dvi --pdf on the
> command line
>
>  R CMD texi2dvi --pdf XYZ.tex
>
> maybe that gives an easier way of trouble-shooting.
>
> Reading Vince's commentary, I would have conceded defeat to LaTeX and
> removed the dependency on pstricks from my vignette.
>
> Martin
>
>  Will my problems be solved just by installing Tex Live?
>>
>> 2011/9/15 Vincent Carey<stvjc@channing.harvard.**edu<stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>
>> >
>>
>>  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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