If you're using Debian, ubuntu or any other  Debian-based Linux
distribution, run

sudo apt-get install texinfo <http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/texinfo>


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Terry Therneau <therneau@mayo.edu> wrote:

>  On the local machine the command R11 CMD Rd2pdf survfit.Rd works fine.
>   R12 CMD Rd2pdf survfit.Rd fails with the message below.
>
> Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
>  survfit.Rd
> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
> Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet =
> FALSE,  :
>  Running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed.
> Messages:
> sh: texi2dvi: command not found
> Output:
>
> Error in running tools::texi2dvi
>
> ---------------
> Here is the header when invoking the newer version:
>
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> The R11 call is 2.11.0, same machine, same login session.
>
>
>  I've looked in the manuals and didn't see anything specific about
> version 12.  Our system administrator will want some hints about what to
> do to fix this, ere I complain.  I discovered it running CMD check on a
> package update.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Terry Therneau
>
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