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

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Duncan et al.:


	  Thanks again to Duncan.  Your suggestions worked for the LaTeX 
problem, though it required multiple iterations, adding a total of 7 
different "tinytex::parse_install" clauses to overcome other LaTeX and 
pdfTeX errors.


	  However, macOS still says, "there is no package called 'ks'", even 
though I added 'install.packages("ks")' as you suggested -- to three 
different places, all without solving the problem.  I posted this 
question to 
"https://community.rstudio.com/new-topic?category=Package%20development&tags=github-actions", 
as suggested in line 2 of "~/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml".  See:


	  Spencer


On 5/23/21 11:03 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> This page
> 
> https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/install-latex-pkgs.html
> 
> suggests that executing this in R should fix the tikz issue:
> 
> tinytex::parse_install(
>    text = "! LaTeX Error: File `tikz.sty' not found."
> )
> 
> The "ks" message looks like a missing R package rather than a missing 
> LaTeX package, so running install.packages("ks") would fix it.
> 
> So the only question is how to do these things in a Github action.  I 
> don't know if there's a pre-made recipe for this, but this one should do 
> it:
> 
>        - name: Install tikz.tex and ks
>          run: |
>            install.packages(c('tinytex', 'ks')) # Maybe tinytex is 
> already there?
>            tinytex::parse_install(
>               text = "! LaTeX Error: File `tikz.sty' not found."
>            )
>          shell: Rscript {0}
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 23/05/2021 11:28 a.m., Spencer Graves wrote:
>> 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
>