[R-pkg-devel] GitHub Action failed re-building 'sos.Rnw'

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Duncan et al.:


	  Thanks very much to Duncan for his suggestion.  I did added the line 
Duncan suggested in three slightly different places.  That fixed the 
problems with missing tex and pdflatex, but exposed two new problems:


	  On Windows and ubuntu (both release and devel) I now get:


LaTeX Error: File `tikz.sty' not found.


	  On macOS, I got a different error:


there is no package called 'ks'


	  I added "ks" to "suggests" in DESCRIPTON but still got "no package 
called 'ks'.  And I studied README in https://github.com/r-lib/actions, 
and I did some other searches without figuring out how to fix 
"`tikz.sty' not found."


	  For more details, see:


https://github.com/sbgraves237/sos


	  Suggestions?
	  Thanks,
	  Spencer


On 5/23/21 4:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 22/05/2021 10:05 p.m., Spencer Graves wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>>
>>       What do you suggest I do to enable GitHub Action to process 
>> "sos.Rnw"
>> properly?
>>
>>
>>       The development version of my "sos" package passes "R CMD check" on
>> my Mac but fails in all four platforms under GitHub Action on
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/sbgraves237/sos
>>
>>
>>       The error messages on macOS and Ubuntu release and devel all seems
>> the same:
>>
>>
>>             * Error: processing vignette 'sos.Rnw' failed with 
>> diagnostics:
>> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'sos.tex' failed.  Messages: You don't have a
>> working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in your PATH, and texi2dvi
>> cannot proceed without one.
>>
>>
>>       The error message under Windows seemed crudely similar but 
>> different:
>>
>>
>>             * Error: processing vignette 'sos.Rnw' failed with 
>> diagnostics:
>> pdflatex is not available
>>
>>
>>       What do you suggest?
> 
> The virtual machines that run Github actions have lots of tools 
> installed, but apparently not LaTeX.  So you need to figure out the 
> "step" to install it.  I'm not currently using Rnw with Github actions, 
> but by looking at the README for https://github.com/r-lib/actions, I'm 
> pretty sure all you need is to add
> 
>    - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-tinytex using v1
> 
> somewhere after
> 
>    - uses: actions/checkout using master