[Rd] Problem making the manuals (make dvi and make pdf)

[Rau, Roland]

Dear Dirk, 

thank you very much!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org] 
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 1:55 PM
> To: Rau, Roland
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem making the manuals (make dvi and make pdf)
> 
> 
> Hi Roland,
> 
> On 26 June 2009 at 10:46, Rau, Roland wrote:
> | Dear all,
> | 
> | I am trying to compile and install R from sources on Ubuntu 
> GNU/Linux 64
> | bit. It usually worked flawlessly for me for more than 4 
> years (32bit
> | and 64bit on Mandrake/Mandriva, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu). However, I am
> | experiencing some problems now -- not during compiling and 
> installing R
> | itself but with the manuals.
> | 
> | Maybe someone can help me with it? I tried to find some 
> information in
> | the archives on the web but I was not successful.
> | 
> | Please let me explain therefore in detail where the problem 
> is (incl.
> | some additional information):
> | 
> | Following the instructions in section 2.2 of the R Installation and
> | Administration Manual
> | 
> (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Making-the
-manuals),
> | making the info manuals works fine via "make info"
> | 
> | However, when I want to make the dvi and pdf manuals, I get the
> | following error:
> | ======================================================
> | 
> | Loading texinfo [version 2007-09-03.05]: pdf, fonts, page headings,
> | tables,
> | conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, 
> defuns, macros,
> | cross references, insertions, (./epsf.tex
> | This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>
> | ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
> | (/usr/share/texmf/tex/lilypond/txi-en.tex
> | /usr/share/texmf/tex/lilypond/txi-en.tex:22: Undefined 
> control sequence.
> | l.22 \txisetlanguage
> |                     {USenglish}{2}{3}
> | ? 
> 
> Can you try again after uninstalling lilypond?
> 
> We do this in an automated fashion all the time on Debian and 
> Ubuntu where is
> works fine.  But we do this mostly in 'clean chroot' environments (via
> pbuilder) which minimises side effects. I'd think you are 
> simply bitten by
> lilypond here.

It works perfectly now (maybe I should have realized it myself)!
And I don't really need lilypond. With a lot of hard disk space to
spare, I decided to simply use the texlive-full metapackage instead of
manually selecting the LaTeX packages I need or don't need. 

Thanks again,
Roland

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