[Rd] Could not create DVI version

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > 
> > I can run R CMD check with current CVS version of R on dse_2003.3-1 on
> > Solaris 8 successfully (using gcc 3.2, but that's not relevant here).
> 
> I just confirmed that I get the same problem with that version of dse.
> I'm using  SunOS 5.8 and perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris.
> 
> > There is
> > 
> >   est.wt.variables                  text    html    latex
> >      missing link(s):  est.min.sqerror
> > 
> > but that's a long-standing error in your packages.
> 
> Fixed in my sources now.
>  
> > This does look like a problem in your Solaris setup.
> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Your Perl?
> 
> > > 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
> >                         ^
> > I get
> > 
> > **\nonstopmode{}\input{setRNG-manual.tex}
> > 
> > so something is wrong.
> 
> Yes. Any suggestions of something else I should try?

What locale are you using?  Might it be worth using 

setenv LANG=C  (or your shell's equivalent)
R CMD check dse

?  I'm wondering about the input encoding to LaTeX: not that I know much 
about it as an Anglophone.

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