[R-sig-Fedora] CentOS 7 issues with pdf manual / tex conversion

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 May 2018 at 16:37, R P Herrold wrote:
| On Tue, 29 May 2018, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| > On a CentOS 7 machine, I am at a loss with respect to an inability to run a
| > full R CMD check as anything involving tex files ends in tears.
| 
| Hi, Dirk
| 
| Have fun at the upcoming conference at UIC
| 
| I seem to have 56 font packages installed under CentOS 7 
| locally, but then I work pretty carefully to cull them down
| 
| What is the specific 'leaf node' package you are trying to 

I noticed it with a local, not-public package -- but it appears to apply with
any source package. I replicated with pkgKitten straight off CRAN and after
checking that it has a six page manual there.  Here, I get an aborted (!!)
source file, same happens with the local, non-public package:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[times,hyper]{Rd}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % @SET ENCODING@
% \usepackage{graphicx} % @USE GRAPHICX@
\makeindex{}
\begin{document}
\chapter*{}
\begin{center}
{\textbf{\huge \R{} documentation}} \par\bigskip{{\Large of \file{pkgKitten\_0.1.4.tar.gz}}}
\par\bigskip{\large \today}
\end{center}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that it ends on \end{center}, not \end{document}.

Dirk

| attain.   Long ago and far away, I packaged several hundred, 
| inspired by your Debian effort, and I may have a working .spec 
| file about
| 
| with my regards,
| 
| -- Russ herrold

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