[Rd] Error in building pdf manual with Rtools

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 07/08/2013 19:29, Tonio wrote:
> Many thanks for your reply.
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> Actually such entry --the one for ts1-zi4r, and the other one for ts1-zi4b as well-- are both included in the zi4.map
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> I agree that this is an issue for the TeX community, and in particular for MiKTeX users. However it seems that there is not a clear answer yet on this issue, and this brings some consequences in transforming the Rd files.

Not for users with properly configured systems ....

> Best regards,
> Tonio
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> Emne: Re: [Rd] Error in building pdf manual with Rtools
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> On 06/08/2013 12:58, Tonio wrote:
>> Dear list,
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>> I am trying to produce a pdf manual using Rtools (version 3.1.0.1936) on Windows 8 (64-bit). I am also aware of the inconsolata issue posted in the forum (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-June/066850.html), and then I have installed the patched version of R-3.0.1. However I still have some errors with the following message:
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>> R CMD Rd2pdfmypack
>> Hmm ... looks like a package
>> Converting Rd files to LaTeX ....
>> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
>> Warning: running command '"C:\PROGRA~1\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\x64\texi2dvi.exe"
>> --pdf "Rd2.tex"  -I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1PA/share/texmf/tex/latex" -I "C:/PROG
>> RA~1/R/R-30~1.1PA/share/texmf/bibtex/bst"' had status 1
>> Error : running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed
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>> LaTeX errors:
>> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex.EXE (file ts1-zi4r): Font ts1-zi4r at 540 not found
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>> Error in running tools::texi2pdf()
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>> The MiKTeX I use is 2.9 and apparently it has no problem in building files with the inconsolata-zi4 packages, since there is the ts1-zi4r.tfm file.
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> Evidently there is such a problem.  My guess is that your MiKTeX is
> missing an entry for the inconsolata map: zi4.map contains
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> ts1-zi4r Inconsolata-zi4r " zi4TS1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <i4-ts1.enc
> <Inconsolata-zi4r.pfb
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> This is neither an Rtools nor an R-devel issue, but a TeX one.
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>> Any help with this issue will be much appreciated.
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>> Best,
>> Antonio
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