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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:39 PM, cstrato wrote:

> Dear Simon
>
> Thank you, too! Sorry, my stupid mistake, and I realized too late  
> that I could have typed "latex".
>
> With one package now everything works fine.
>
> In contrast, with my other package I get an error. Looking at the  
> log-file I see that
> latex does not understand the command:
>  \url{http://nnn.com}
>

That may be an indication that you forgot to use the hyperref package...


> Interestingly, the identical Snw-file runs fine on FC4.
> Do I have to define \url{} in the Snw-file on the Mac?
>
> Moreover, I get the following output:
> --- running texi2dvi on vignettes
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi  
> 600 tcrm1000
> mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600;  
> nonstopmode; input tcrm1000
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/tcrm1000.mf
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exbase.mf)
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/tcrm.mf
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/txsymb.mf
> Ok (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ 
> exaccess.mf
> Ok) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ 
> txpseudo.mf
> Ok) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ 
> txaccent.mf
> Ok [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [27] [29])
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/txgen.mf
> Ok [100] [109] [98] [99] [108])
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/txsymbol.mf
> Ok [13] [18] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [28] [31] [32] [36] [39]  
> [44]
> [45] [46] [42] [47] [60] [61] [62] [77] [79] [87] [110] [91] [93]  
> [94] [95]
> [96] [126] [127] [128] [129] [130] [131] [132] [133] [134] [135]  
> [136] [137]
> [138] [139] [140] [141] [142] [143] [144] [145] [146] [147] [148]  
> [149]
> [150] [151] [152] [153] [154] [155] [156] [157] [158] [159] [160]  
> [161]
> [162] [163] [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] [169] [171] [172] [173]  
> [174]
> [175] [177] [176] [180] [181] [182] [183] [184] [187] [191] [214]  
> [246])
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/txromod.mf
> Ok [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57])
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/txrsuper.mf
> Ok [185] [178] [179] [170] [186])
> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/txrfract.mf
> Ok [188] [189] [190]) ) ) )
> (some charht values had to be adjusted by as much as 0.06943pt)
> Font metrics written on tcrm1000.tfm.
> Output written on tcrm1000.600gf (128 characters, 23728 bytes).
> Transcript written on tcrm1000.log.
> mktexpk: /var/tmp/texfonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/tcrm1000.600pk:  
> successfully generated.
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex  
> exited with bad status, quitting.
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/texi2dvi: see xps.log  
> for errors.
> Error in texi2dvi(file = bft, pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet =  
> TRUE) :
>
> Do you know what this output means?
>

Did you look at the output?

Cheers,
Simon


>
> Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>