[R-pkg-devel] pdflatex crashes with R CMD check

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/02/2016 9:33 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a package with a Rnw vignette. The vignette builds without a
> problem. R CMD build and R CMD check run without problem on Ubuntu but fail
> on Windows.
>
> The problem starts at the point where "R CMD build mypackage" creates the
> vignettes.
> - First the log shows: "* creating vignettes ..."
> - Then I get a popup window stating "pdflatex.EXE stops working".
> - I choose to "stop pdflatex.exe".
> - R CMD build resumes and displays "* creating vignettes ... OK".
>
> A similar problem occurs wtih "R CMD check --as-cran mypackage_x.z.y.tar.gz"
>
> - The log shows: "* checking re-building of vignette outputs ..."
> - Then I get a popup window stating "pdflatex.EXE stops working".
> - I choose to "stop pdflatex.exe".
> - R CMD check resumes and displays "* checking re-building of vignette
> outputs ... OK".
> - The log shows: "* checking PDF version of manual ..."
> - Then I get a popup window stating "pdflatex.EXE stops working".
> - I choose to "stop pdflatex.exe".
> - R CMD check resumes and displays "* checking PDF version of manual ...
> OK".
>
> The pdf of both the vignette and the manual are compiled in
> mypackage.Rcheck. The pdf of the vignette is present in the tar.gz and .zip
>
> The only warning I can find it in Rdaltex.log:
> Warning: running command '"C:\R\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\x64\texify.exe"
>   --pdf "Rd2.tex" --max-iterations=20 -I
> "c:/R/R-32~1.3/share/texmf/tex/latex" -I
> "c:/R/R-32~1.3/share/texmf/bibtex/bst"' had status 1
>
> Does someone has a clue what is going wrong?

Miktex has been messing around with texify, and possibly with pdflatex 
(I'm just guessing from your popups).  You might try updating it, or 
switching to a different version, or switching to texlive.

Duncan Murdoch