[Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, if all else fails read the manual:

The PDF documentation (including doc/NEWS.pdf) and building vignettes 
needs tex and latex, or pdftex and pdflatex. We require LaTeX version 
2005/12/01 or later (for UTF-8 support). Building PDF package manuals 
(including the R reference manual) and vignettes is sensitive to the 
version of the LaTeX package hyperref and we recommend that the TeX 
distribution used is keep up-to-date. A number of LaTeX packages are 
required (including url.sty, and listings.sty) and others such as 
hyperref and inconsolata are desirable (and without them you will need 
to change R's defaults: see Making the manuals).

The default can be overridden by setting the environment variable 
R_RD4PDF. (On Unix-alikes, this will be picked up at install time and 
stored in etc/Renviron, but can still be overridden when the manuals are 
built.) The default value for R_RD4PDF is ‘times,inconsolata,hyper’: 
omit ‘hyper’ if you do not want hyperlinks (e.g. for printing the 
manual) or do not have LaTeX package hyperref, and omit ‘inconsolata’ if 
you do not have LaTeX package inconsolata installed.


On 04/02/2013 14:27, Jonathon Love wrote:
> On 04/02/13 23:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>  > Probably, but if you want help you're going to need to give some more
>  > information first, such as what exactly you installed from SVN, what OS
>  > you are using, what target you tried to build, and anything else
>  > necessary so that a potential helper can duplicate what you did.
>
> my bad. sorry.
>
> on ubuntu 12.10 i did a checkout of the 2.15.2 tag
>
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/tags/R-2-15-2
>
> next i ran the tools/rsync-recommended script
>
> then i ran:
>
> ./configure
>
> (it did give me these warnings)
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or HTML versions of the R manuals
> configure: WARNING: inconsolata.sty not found: PDF vignettes and package
> manuals will not be rendered optimally
>
> then i ran:
>
> make
>
> giving me the error:
>
> building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
> processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
> Error: running Sweave on vignette
> '/home/jonathon/projects/R/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
> failed with message:
>   chunk 2
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>    unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'
> Execution halted
> make[1]: *** [vignettes] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathon/projects/R/src/library'
> make: *** [vignettes] Error 2
>
> other things that may be helpful:
>
> gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2
> pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
>
> The problem seems to be with building vignette's for the recommended
> packages. Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> with thanks
>
> Jonathon Love
>
>
>
>> On 13-02-03 9:52 PM, Jonathon Love wrote:
>>> G'day,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to build R using the code from SVN. I am able to successfully
>>> build the source from here:
>>>
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.2.tar.gz
>>>
>>> However, when building the code checked out from SVN (either from 2.15.2
>>> tag, or the trunk) I get the following error:
>>>
>>>
>>> Error: running Sweave on vignette
>>> '/home/jonathon/projects/R/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
>>> failed with message:
>>>    chunk 2
>>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet =
>>> quiet,  :
>>>     unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'
>>> Execution halted
>>> make[1]: *** [vignettes] Error 1
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can fix this?
>>
>
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>
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