[R-pkg-devel] latex related error in generating pdf manual

[Chris Lloyd]

Thanks so much. That worked!

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From: Rafael Ayala Hernandez <Rafael.AyalaHernandez using oist.jp>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 2:46 PM
To: Chris Lloyd <C.Lloyd using mbs.edu>; r-package-devel using r-project.org
Subject: RE: latex related error in generating pdf manual

Hi Chris, The error is probably due to not having a TeX distribution installed on your Windows machine (or not having properly set up path for it). texi2dvi is called automatically in the automatic process of generating the consolidated PDF

Hi Chris,

The error is probably due to not having a TeX distribution installed on your Windows machine (or not having properly set up path for it). texi2dvi is called automatically in the automatic process of generating the consolidated PDF manual, so no worries that it is not present in your R code. It comes from package tools

You can install for example the MiKTeX distribution from here https://miktex.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/miktex.org/__;!!ArRwEOZWieQ!VBcLm8sSSRgFat2LGpBFc5OoLPAPs_m2Q2rM1SEInDqWoQC_f6Q4y7XhOCDJEPSGozaC9Mtlj_g7jnHKz4q5ZG7kAI8$>

Maybe give that a shot? Unless you have it installed already!

Best wishes,

Rafa
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Asunto: [R-pkg-devel] latex related error in generating pdf manual

I have had a programmer developing my package from the raw  r-code and other instructions I provided. He is using roxygen2 to create the documentation (I have to say that I do not see the point of this at all). He also creates a consolidated manual of all the functions in the package.

After this project is completed, I will hope to use everything he did as a template for future packages. He is working on Unix but I am in Windows. I suspect he is using Unix specific stuff in his build. As a consequence, I am getting the errors below.

> system("R CMD check --as-cran exact.n_0.1.0.tar.gz")

About 50 lines all OK....

* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking examples ... OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR
Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
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 C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpS8O9f0/Rd2pdf527c554c1c51'
* checking for detritus in the temp directory ... OK
* DONE

Status: 1 ERROR, 1 WARNING, 1 NOTE

I did not use the tarball that he supplied but generated my own (So I generated my own tarball (system("R CMD build exact.n")  without any error.

I must admit that, looking at his code, I cannot see anywhere where the pdf manual is created and for this reason am unable to start trouble shooting. I cannot even find a package or function called texi2dvi which is generating the error.

Any help appreciated.


Chris J. Lloyd
Professor of Business Statistics
Melbourne Business School
200 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia
T:  +61 3 9349 8228
E:  c.lloyd using mbs.edu<mailto:c.lloyd using mbs.edu>  |  www.mbs.edu<http://www.mbs.edu/>

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