[Rd] Miktex does not work with R CMD check

[Uwe Ligges]

Ulrike,

I just upgraded to the full MikTeX 2.8 distribution from today (still on 
2.7 before) and checking my tuneR package worked fine.
Hence  Which package are you referring to?

Best wishes,
Uwe


On 25.04.2010 18:57, Ulrike Grömping wrote:
> Dear DevelopeRs,
>
> the issue I am stuck with (I am on Windows, R-2.11): My Miktex (version
> 2.8) does not work with R CMD check, although Miktex on its own can
> pdflatex the tex-file in the Rcheck directory. (This issue has been
> going on for a while, and now, after having updated to R-2.11, I finally
> want to get it fixed.) Although I have found several similar posts, none
> of the answers appears to solve my problem, which seems to be
> path-related. In case it is relevant: in the past, I did have issues
> with paths to "my documents" because these contain a German Umlaut on my
> computer, which is why I moved all R packages to the directory c:/rtests.
>
> I would appreciate any help on this issue. The relevant portion of R CMD
> check and the content of Rdlatex.log are included below.
>
> Best regards,
> Ulrike
>
> The end of the R CMD check output looks like this:
>
> * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
> LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
> This typically indicates Rd problems.
> * checking PDF version of manual without index ... ERROR
> LaTeX error when running command:
> Rcmd.exe Rd2dvi --batch --no-preview --pdf
> --build-dir=C:/WINDOWS/Temp/Rd2dvi611638299 --no-clean --no-index -o
> DoE.base-manual.pdf >/dev/null 2>&1 C:/rtests/DoE.base.Rcheck/DoE.base
> Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
>
> The file Rdlatex.log contains the following text:
>
> Hmm ... looks like a package
> latex.exe: A required file system path could not be retrieved.
> latex.exe: Data: 28
> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
> pdflatex.exe: A required file system path could not be retrieved.
> pdflatex.exe: Data: 28
> Error in running pdflatex command ('pdflatex')
> You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf C:/WINDOWS/Temp/Rd2dvi611638299'
>
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