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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, John Fox wrote:

> 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:

Assuming this is the CRAN build of R, it is looking on the path.  So 
all I can think is that you have the path set incorrectly somewhere in 
your R statrtup files.


>
> Here's what happens when I try to check a package:
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> 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
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> I get the following error when I try to check the package under eclipse/StatET (deleting the lines before the error):
>
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> * 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
>
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> But I have no problem running pdflatex from a terminal window:
>
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> John-Foxs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfox$ pdflatex --help
> Usage: pdftex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
>   or: pdftex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
>
> ----- snip -----------
>
> Nor does Sys.which() seem to find pdflatex:
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> 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
>      ""
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> Some more information about my system:
>
> ----- snip ------
>
>> 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
>
> ----- snip ------
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> John Fox
> Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>
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