[R-pkg-devel] pdflatex is not available

[David Winsemius]

I thought TexLive is the usual place to get pdflatex.

Appears I am not the only one who thinks that.


https://askubuntu.com/questions/1161821/pdflatex-not-found-while-installing-r-software-on-ubuntu-19-04


-- 

David.

On 12/13/19 4:06 PM, Cathy Lee Gierke wrote:
> Does anyone know why I might get this error?
>
> Hmm ... looks like a package
>
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>
>    pdflatex is not available
>
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>
> *  pdflatex is not available*
>
> *Error in running tools::texi2pdf()*
>
> You may want to clean up by 'rm -Rf
> /var/folders/0m/41bxx35j5x9f_tks7zrd7jh00000gn/T//Rtmpuv00M5/Rd2pdf8f2a123193cb'
>
> * checking for detritus in the temp directory ... OK
>
> * DONE
>
>
>
> There are no clues in the Rdlatex.log
> I have attached the ...manual.tex file.  Is there a way to check it for
> non-ascii or non-printing characters on a Mac?  I have had that problem
> before, but I'm not finding any now.  Maybe I have the wrong command?
>
>
> find /Users/user/CATkit/CATkit/man | perl -ne 'print if /[^[:ascii:]]/'
>
> find /Users/user/CATkit/CATkit/man/CatCall.rd | perl -ne 'print if
> /[^[:ascii:]]/'
>
>
> Should there be a pdf file somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Cathy Lee Gierke
>
>
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