[R-SIG-Mac] R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 75, Issue 18
Ji-Ping Wang
jzwang at northwestern.edu
Wed May 20 12:42:01 CEST 2009
Hi, Berend and all,
Thanks for pointing out this. That's very helpful. Indeed it was the path
of pdflatex issue. After installing MacTex, the problem is solved.
jiping
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> 1. Re: Problem with R CMD check, pdflatex (Berend Hasselman)
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> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:07:27 +0200
> From: Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem with R CMD check, pdflatex
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> Cc: Michael H?hle <Michael.Hoehle at stat.uni-muenchen.de>
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> On 17-05-2009, at 14:52, Michael H?hle wrote:
>
>> however, my pdflatex is located in e.g.
>>
>> $ which pdflatex
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
>
>
> That would be quite an old TeX installation?
> The teTeX distribution is no longer maintained.
>
> You should consider switching to MacTeX ( http://www.tug.org/mactex/ )
> It has everything you need. It's excellent.
>
> Berend
>
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> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:53:06 +0100 (BST)
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem with R CMD check, pdflatex
> To: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
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> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> CRAN R comes configured with MacTeX, see also
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-April/006129.html
>>
>> One of the problems is that PATH settings on OS X differ between LS-started
>> apps, shells etc., so it is in general problematic to get the path right in
>> all circumstances, so currently the CRAN binary assumes the most common
>> distribution.
>
> True, but here we talking about R_PDFLATEXCMD, which is only used by
> Rd2dvi, which is AFAIK only called via R CMD and so from a shell. I
> would have thought that 'R_PDFLATEXCMD=pdflatex' (so looking on the
> path) was a better default for a binary distribution.
>
> You can always set R_PDFLATEXCMD (or PDFLATEX) if the distributed
> binary is not right for you.
>
> R CMD check does do a check for a workable pdflatex, but it seems it
> looks at the environment variable PDFLATEX not R_PDFLATEXCMD: I'll
> update it.
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On May 17, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Michael H?hle wrote:
>>
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>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> Dear R-Sig-Mac,
>>>
>>> Regarding Ji-Ping's problem I experienced a similar issue after having
>>> upgraded to 2.9.0 on my Mac. The checking of the PDF manual causes
>>> warnings and the following check of PDF version without index causes an
>>> error.
>>>
>>> $ tail -n 4 00check.log
>>> * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
>>> LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
>>> This typically indicates Rd problems.
>>> * checking PDF version of manual without index ... ERROR
>>>
>>> The interesting part is that when uploading the <package>.tar.gz file to
>>> Uwe Ligges win-builder website, the package compiles without warnings or
>>> errors on Windows.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, the document compiles without any errors when manually
>>> compiling the resulting <package>-manual.pdf in the ..Rcheck folder with
>>> pdflatex.
>>>
>>> However, when trying to generate the manual with:
>>>
>>> $ R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf .
>>> Hmm ... looks like a package
>>> Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
>>> <snip>
>>> Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 228:
>>> /usr/texbin/pdflatex: No such file or directory
>>> Error in running pdflatex command ('/usr/texbin/pdflatex')
>>>
>>> It appears as if the new 2.9.0 searches for pdflatex in
>>> /usr/texbin/pdflatex
>>>
>>> however, my pdflatex is located in e.g.
>>>
>>> $ which pdflatex
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
>>>
>>> When setting up a symlink to /usr/texbin R CMD check worked fine. So the
>>> problem appears to have to do with R looking for pdflatex in the "wrong"
>>> place?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S. For the record:
>>>
>>> $ which pdflatex
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
>>>
>>> $ latex --version
>>> pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>>> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>
>>>
>>>
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