[R-SIG-Mac] problem checking packages with R 2.13.0

[John Fox]

Dear list members,

I'm experiencing a problem checking packages with R 2.13.0 on a new Mac OS X 10.6.7 system. As far as I can tell, R isn't finding my LaTeX installation. Packages seem to build fine. Some details follow:

Here's what happens when I try to check a package:

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John-Foxs-MacBook-Pro:workspace jfox$ R CMD check car
* using log directory ‘/Users/jfox/Documents/workspace/car.Rcheck’
* using R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
* using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 (64-bit)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file ‘car/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* this is package ‘car’ version ‘2.0-10’
. . .
* checking examples ... OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
LaTeX errors found:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file 8r.enc): cannot open encoding file for reading
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
* checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR

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I get the following error when I try to check the package under eclipse/StatET (deleting the lines before the error):


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* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR
Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
Hmm ... looks like a package
You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /var/folders/ay/ayD+f6yQFomFC5SGQV6vP++++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpopONVs/Rd2pdf16f793c'
Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE,  : 
  pdflatex is not available
Error in running tools::texi2dvi


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But I have no problem running pdflatex from a terminal window:


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John-Foxs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfox$ pdflatex --help
Usage: pdftex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
   or: pdftex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE

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Nor does Sys.which() seem to find pdflatex:

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R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

. . .

[R.app GUI 1.40 (5751) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]

[History restored from /Users/jfox/.Rapp.history]

> Sys.which("pdflatex")
pdflatex 
      "" 

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Some more information about my system:

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> Sys.info()
                                                                                          sysname 
                                                                                         "Darwin" 
                                                                                          release 
                                                                                         "10.7.3" 
                                                                                          version 
"Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.3: Sun Mar  6 13:37:56 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.14.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64" 
                                                                                         nodename 
                                                                    "John-Foxs-MacBook-Pro.local" 
                                                                                          machine 
                                                                                         "x86_64" 
                                                                                            login 
                                                                                           "jfox" 
                                                                                             user 
                                                                                           "jfox" 

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

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Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
 John

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John Fox
Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/