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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:52 , Robin Hankin wrote:

> 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):
>

... just telling us exactly which packages you have in mind would be  
perfectly sufficient and more informative ;).

Short story: nothing to worry about - it should go away

Long story: We do build packages incrementally, i.e. a package is only  
re-built if there is a new version (of the package or major R release)  
or the package has failed make check previously (along the concept of  
hope springs eternal). In the case of "partitions" it has last been  
built 11/13/08 which was before some updates to the TeX system on the  
check machine, so chances are that it wasn't happy with the TeX  
present then. I have re-checked the package (partitions) today and the  
NOTE went away. I'll check and see if any other packages are also  
affected and re-check them, too.

Thanks,
Simon



>   * 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.
>>
>
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