[Rd] Package keyval Error: noupquote undefined

[Paul Murrell]

I'm getting the same problem
(I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, TeXLive 2009 and likely to remain there for the 
next year or so)

Paul

On 06/10/14 07:40, Yihui Xie wrote:
> Cc'ing to the author of this commit.
>
> If TeXLive >= 2013 or a certain version of inconsolata/zi4 is
> required, I think it should be documented somewhere, otherwise please
> consider backward compatibility with TeXLive <= 2012. Personally I
> prefer the latter, given how infrequently TeXLive is upgraded. It is
> not unusual to see TeXLive that has been a few years older than its
> latest version.
>
> One possible solution is to test the version of inconsolata or zi4:
>
> \@ifpackagelater{inconsolata}{2013/06/09}{
> % use noupquote
> }
> {
> % do not use
> }
>
> although I do not quite understand the rationale to write a homemade
> version of upquote in Rd.sty...
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
> --
> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
> Web: http://yihui.name
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Due to a change in Rd.sty a few days ago
>> (https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/620eb9a#diff-3bf3d821c6faae50cd6ec931f6f63296L272),
>> the default installation of TeXLive 2009 or 2012 no longer works when
>> building Rd to PDF. The error log is like this:
>>
>> ===============
>> Converting Rd files to LaTeX .....
>> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>>    Running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed.
>> LaTeX errors:
>> ! Package keyval Error: noupquote undefined.
>>
>> See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>   ...
>> ! Emergency stop.
>>   ...
>>
>> l.37 \ProcessOptions*
>>
>> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> Output:
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
>> entering extended mode
>> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
>> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
>> yphenation, loaded.
>> (./Rd2.tex (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/book.cls
>> Document Class: book 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
>> (/home/yihui/repos/r-source/share/texmf/tex/latex/Rd.sty
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/bm.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/alltt.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/inconsolata/inconsolata.sty
>> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
>>
>> ! Package keyval Error: noupquote undefined.
>>
>> See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>   ...
>>
>> l.37 \ProcessOptions*
>>
>> ?
>> ! Emergency stop.
>>   ...
>>
>> l.37 \ProcessOptions*
>>
>> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> Transcript written on Rd2.log.
>> Error in running tools::texi2pdf()
>> ===============
>>
>> Here is my sessionInfo():
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R Under development (unstable) (2014-06-04 r65854)
>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> $ pdflatex --version
>> pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
>> kpathsea version 5.0.0
>> Copyright 2009 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>>
>> The problem is reproducible with TeXLive 2012 and Ubuntu 12.04. I went
>> through the R-admin manual, and I did not seem to find a requirement
>> of the TeXLive version there.
>>
>> Here is a minimal foo.Rd that shows the problem when running `Rd CMD
>> Rd2pdf foo.Rd`:
>>
>> \name{foo}
>> \alias{foo}
>> \title{Foo}
>> \description{
>> Bar.
>> }
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Web: http://yihui.name
>
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