[R-pkg-devel] pdflatex is not available

[Göran Broström]

On 2019-12-14 14:02, Sarah Goslee wrote:
> It sounds like you're on a Mac? Then you need to install MacTeX,
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/ to get pdflatex.

Or maybe tinytex will do? https://yihui.org/tinytex/

Göran

> 
> Sarah
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 7:11 PM Cathy Lee Gierke <leegi001 using umn.edu> 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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