[R] Error using Rd2dvi on OSX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please use R-sig-mac for questions about MacOS X.

pdflatex is not in your path, if it is installed.  As makeindex appears to 
be in your path, I suspect that pdflatex is not installed.

R CMD Rd2dvi man

will use latex rather than pdflatex, and will help confirm this.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I run R 2.5.1 on Mac OS 10.4.10 and fail to build a package manual.
> Below is the transcript. The problem is a "pdflatex: command not found"
> error but I think that I have a fully working latex install (installed
> with iInstaller) as I use TeXShop with no problem.
>
> Could someone help?
>
> Jean-Pierre
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> gattuso@[~/Documents/experiments/seacarb_folder/seacarb]: R CMD Rd2dvi
> --pdf man
> Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
> man/K1.Rd
> man/K1p.Rd
> man/K2.Rd
> man/K2p.Rd
> man/K3p.Rd
> man/Kb.Rd
> man/Kf.Rd
> man/Kh.Rd
> man/Ks.Rd
> man/Kspa.Rd
> man/Kspc.Rd
> man/Kw.Rd
> man/bor.Rd
> man/carb.Rd
> man/phinsi.Rd
> man/rho.Rd
> man/seacarb_test.Rd
> ENCS is
> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 333:
> pdflatex: command not found
> lstat(./makeindex) failed ...
> ./makeindex: No such file or directory
> Couldn't find input index file Rd2 nor Rd2.idx.
> Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0
> idx1 ...]
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 335:
> pdflatex: command not found
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 337:
> pdflatex: command not found
> Saving output to 'Rd2.pdf' ...
> cp: .Rd2dvi28208/Rd2.pdf: No such file or directory
> Done
>
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