[Rd] Could not create DVI version

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Apr 1 20:54:10 MEST 2003


On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> In Solaris with R-1.7.0beta from 2003-04-01 I still have a problem with
> "R CMD check" after I build a package:
> 
> * creating setRNG-manual.tex ... OK
> * checking setRNG-manual.tex ... ERROR
> Could not create DVI version.
> This typically indicates Rd problems.
> 
> I can manually gererate the dvi from setRNG-manual.tex, so I don't think
> my latex is defective as I speculated last week. The file texput.log
> indicates
> 
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (format=latex 2001.1.12)  1
> APR 2003 12:09
> **\nonstopmode\inputsetRNG-manual.tex
> ! Emergency stop.
> <*> \nonstopmode\inputsetRNG-manual.tex
>                                        
> *** (job aborted, no legal \end found)
> 
> 
> I don't know what this is suppose to mean, or whether this is where I am
> suppose to look for the source of the problem. Other than the ongoing
> occassional segfault problems with sweave (gc?), everything works fine
> in Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 (with R-1.7.0beta from 2003-03-31).

I've seen that several times: I think there is an Sweave-related gc 
problem.

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