[Rd] 87668 fails on Windows 10 with "pdflatex not found"

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed Jan 29 21:04:50 CET 2025


Sorry, that misses a step. You should try

   R CMD Sweave --pdf displaylist.Rnw

which runs it through Sweave to make displaylist.tex and then tries to 
run texi2pdf() on that.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2025-01-29 3:00 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> The builder runs tools::texi2pdf() on the vignettes.  Does that give the
> same error for you?  Do earlier revisions work?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 2025-01-29 2:20 p.m., Avraham Adler wrote:
>> I see there have been a number of tweaks to the document build
>> recently (87650, 87654, 87658, 97660, 97661, etc.)
>>
>> I tried building 87668 today on Windows 10 and received the error
>> below. Is this related?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Avi
>>
>> building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
>> processing 'displaylist.Rnw'
>> Error: compiling TeX file 'displaylist.tex' failed with message:
>> pdflatex is not available
>> Execution halted
>> building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
>> processing 'parallel.Rnw'
>> Error: compiling TeX file 'parallel.tex' failed with message:
>> pdflatex is not available
>> Execution halted
>> building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
>> processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
>> Error: running Sweave on vignette
>> 'C:/RDevel/avraham/R/trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
>> failed with message:
>>    chunk 2
>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>>     pdflatex is not available
>> Execution halted
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile.win:99: vignettes] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:345: vignettes] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:395: distribution] Error 2
>>
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