[R] Problem creating reference manuals from latex

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 05:31:25 CET 2011


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Tyler Rinker <tyler_rinker at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> R Community,
>
> I often am in need of viewing the reference manuals of packages and do not have Internet access.  I have used the code:
>
> path <- find.package('tm')
> system(paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R")),"CMD", "Rd2pdf",shQuote(path)))
>
> someone kindly provided from this help list to generate the manuals from the latex files.  This worked well with version R 2.13.  After the upgrade to R 2.14 I use this code (see below and get an error message I don't understand).  I'm pretty sure "! LaTeX Error: File `inconsolata.sty'" not found. is important but don't get it's significance.  There's a post about it here:

Check out:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e16/help/11/11/0345.html

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e16/help/11/11/0362.html


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