[R-SIG-Mac] Lion and latex

[Berend Hasselman]

On 01-09-2011, at 21:15, Hadley Wickham wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I recently upgraded to lion, and now when checking packages I get:
> 
> * 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
> Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE,  :
>  pdflatex is not available
> Error in running tools::texi2dvi
> You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /tmp/RtmpBfIezv/Rd2pdf7957c6f4'
> 
> I've tried reinstalling mactex but no luck.  pdflatex is available on
> the path and works when I run it by hand.  Any ideas?

After (re)installing MacTeX (2011?) did you run FixMacTeX2011?
See
http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/prefpane.html

Berend