[R-SIG-Mac] latex: command not found

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 4:59 PM, cstrato wrote:

> Dear all
>
> When running "R CMD check" on my Intel-Mac, I get always the line:
> * checking for working latex ...sh: line 1: latex: command not found
>
> So I downloaded the i-Installer II and installed gwTeX as  
> administrator.
>
> As user I put the directory  /usr/texbin  in ".bashrc":
> export PATH=usr/texbin:$PATH
>

You didn't - you have put "usr/texbin" there which doesn't help ...

> When I do "echo $PATH" I get:
> /Volumes/CoreData/ROOT/root/bin:usr/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/ 
> sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>
> So the correct path to "tex", "latex" and "texi2dvi" is now included.
>

Why don't you just test it with "latex"? You don't need to run make  
check to test that ;)

Cheers,
Simon

> However, I still get the following output of R CMD check:
> * checking for working latex ...sh: line 1: latex: command not found
>  NO
> * using log directory '/Volumes/CoreData/CRAN/mypkg.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.6.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-06-22  
> r42030)
> * checking for file 'mypkg/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking extension type ... Package
> * this is package 'mypkg' version '0.1.1'
> * checking package name space information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking whether package 'mypkg' can be installed ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated  
> dependencies ... OK
> * checking whether the name space can be loaded with stated  
> dependencies
> ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
> getProbesetIDs4RefSeqs: no visible binding for global variable 'refid'
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd cross-references ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * creating mypkg-Ex.R ... OK
> * checking examples ... OK
> * checking package vignettes in 'inst/doc' ... WARNING
> Package vignettes without corresponding PDF:
>   /Volumes/CoreData/CRAN/mypkg.Rcheck/00_pkg_src/mypkg/inst/doc/ 
> mypkg.Snw
> --- running texi2dvi on vignettes
> You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
> your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to  
> use
> this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or  
> change
> your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
> output for more details.
> For information about obtaining TeX, please see http:// 
> www.tug.org.  If
> you happen to be using Debian, you can get it with this command:
>   apt-get install tetex-bin
> Error in texi2dvi(file = bft, pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet =  
> TRUE) :
>   running texi2dvi on 'mypkg.tex' failed
> Calls: checkVignettes -> texi2dvi
> Execution halted
> * creating mypkg-manual.tex ... OK
>
> WARNING: There was 1 warning, see
>   /Volumes/CoreData/CRAN/mypkg.Rcheck/00check.log
> for details
>
> Do I still miss something?
>
> Thank you in advance
> Best regards
> Christian
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