[R-SIG-Mac] R CMD check / texi2dvi issues

[Robin Hankin]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Robin Hankin wrote:
>
>> Dear List
>>
>> MacOSX 10.5.5
>> R-2.8.1 / R-2.9.0
>>
>> I'm having difficulty  with vignettes under  Mac OS X.
>>
>> Take the partitions package as an example.  According to the CRAN
>> package check page for partitions, this is clean under each
>> system, except for r-release-macosx-ix86 
>> <http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_flavors.html#r-release-macosx-ix86> 
>> where the  check gives
>> errors, for example:
>>
>> "Running 'texi2dvi' on setpartitions.tex failed. "
>>
>> Similar things happen to my other packages that include vignettes;
>> I can't build vignette packages under macosx either.
>>
>> What's going on here?
>
> Maybe _you_ could tell _us_?  R-devel gives more informative 
> diagnostics than the above. However, 'partitions' checks out for me on 
> my Mac, so I've no idea what you are seeing.  Surely a copy of your 
> logs is 'at a minimum' information.
>

Sorry, I intended the link above to point to the log.  Below text is 
cut-and-pasted
just now from the CRAN Package Check Results for Package partitions (mac 
section):

    * using R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
    * using session charset: ASCII
    * checking for file 'partitions/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
    * checking extension type ... Package
    * this is package 'partitions' version '1.8-2'
    * checking package name space information ... OK
    * checking package dependencies ... OK
    * checking if this is a source package ... OK
    * checking for executable files ... OK
    * checking whether package 'partitions' 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 ... OK
    * 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 line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers ... OK
    * checking line endings in Makefiles ... OK
    * checking for portable use of $BLAS_LIBS ... OK
    * creating partitions-Ex.R ... OK
    * checking examples ... OK
    * checking tests ... OK
    * checking package vignettes in 'inst/doc' ... NOTE
      *** PDFLaTeX Errors ***
      File
      /Builds/Rdev-web/QA/Simon/packages/tiger-universal/results/2.8/partitions.Rcheck/inst/doc/partitionspaper.Rnw
      :
      Running 'texi2dvi' on 'partitionspaper.tex' failed.
      File
      /Builds/Rdev-web/QA/Simon/packages/tiger-universal/results/2.8/partitions.Rcheck/inst/doc/scrabble.Rnw
      :
      Running 'texi2dvi' on 'scrabble.tex' failed.
      File
      /Builds/Rdev-web/QA/Simon/packages/tiger-universal/results/2.8/partitions.Rcheck/inst/doc/setpartitions.Rnw
      :
      Running 'texi2dvi' on 'setpartitions.tex' failed.
    * creating partitions-manual.tex ... OK
    * elapsed time (check, wall clock): 0:47



It's clean under the other architectures.


> BTW, there is no 'R-2.9.0'.  If you mean 'R-devel (r47575)' or similar 
> please say so -- too much time has been wasted in the past dealing 
> with people using weeks-old versions of R-devel with issues that were 
> only present for a few hours.
>