[R-pkg-devel] rhub (version 2) baulking at building a vignette.

[Rolf Turner]

Some time back, in the mists of memory, I got advice (on this list, I'm
pretty sure) about building vignettes.  The advice was to the effect
that if the vignette was actually just a *.tex file, one could (after
putting in some preparatory code, in the form of comments, before the
documentclass command) pre-process the file (with pdflatex)
and the build would use the *.pdf file that was created, without any
processing being required.

Being a Bear of Very Little Brain (and understanding almost nothing of
the underlying intricacies) I simply followed instructions. It seemed
to work, I was able to build and install the package containing the
vignette in question.

Now I want to build a Windoze binary of the package.  Trying to do this
with rhub led to a failure.  The build process seemed to ignore the
pre-processed *.pdf file, tried to create it, and complained that
pdflatex was not available.

I raised an "issue" about this on rhub:

   https://github.com/r-hub/rhub/issues/629

I got a response from the redoubtable Gábor Csárdi saying that
when he tried a local build of my package, the build command threw
effectively the same error as did rhub.  So there's "something about my
system" that is different.  What could it be?

I have attached my session info in a *.txt file, to avoid cluttering the
email window too much.

If anyone should wish to experiment, they can clone the package in
question (I think!) by executing: 

git clone https://github.com/rolfTurner/kanova.git

Can anyone give me some avuncular advice as to how:

(a) to get rhub_check() to use the pre-compiled file testStat.pdf, or
(b) to make pdflatex available to rhub_check()
(c) to do something else that will permit me to build a Windoze binary
     using rhub?

Grateful for any tips.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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