[R-SIG-Mac] latex errors, Rd problems

[Simon Urbanek]

See previous responses in this thread - for any recent R version you'll need updated texinfo - we provide a binary at
http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
or you can use any other source that you trust.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Apr 10, 2015, at 9:34 AM, David Stanley <statscanbefun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think this might be a general R 3.1.3 issue on OS X.
> 
> I was running R 3.1.2 and the documentation creation worked fine. 
> I upgraded to 3.1.3 and immediately encountered the same error.
> This was all in the span of 5 minutes. Perhaps a default path was changed in 3.1.3?
> 
> Fingers crossed that R  3.1.4 for OS X will fix it.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
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> 
> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 6:34:47 AM UTC-4, Adrian Dușa wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> Not sure if this is the right list, but it seems like a Mac related problem 
> (version OS X 10.9.5, haven't upgraded to Yosemite just yet). 
> 
> I'm getting a warning when building a package (with R 3.1.3), relating to 
> LaTeX and Rd problems: 
> 
> * 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 ... OK 
> * DONE 
> 
> The final .pdf file looks alright, so it gets created after all despite 
> this warning. 
> 
> I've tried to search in the .Rd files for anything suspicious but could not 
> find anything. Also, searched over the web for anything related, only found 
> a post referring to a missing "inconsolata.sty" but doesn't seem to be my 
> case. 
> 
> I also tried R CMD Rd2pdf (in the command line), and I get this at the end: 
> 
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
>   Running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed. 
> Messages: 
> sh: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: No such file or directory 
> 
> It might boil down to this missing texi2dvi, but I have the full 
> MacTeX-2014 (fresh reinstall today) on my system and it should be there. 
> 
> Might also be a path issue: here's is the difference between R.gui and 
> terminal: 
> 
> > Sys.getenv("PATH") 
> [1] "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin" 
> 
> Adrians-MBP:~ dusadrian$ $PATH 
> -bash: 
> /usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/texbin: 
> No such file or directory 
> 
> Thanks very much for any hint, below my R version. 
> 
> > R.version 
>                _ 
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 
> arch           x86_64 
> os             darwin13.4.0 
> system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0 
> status 
> major          3 
> minor          1.3 
> year           2015 
> month          03 
> day            09 
> svn rev        67962 
> language       R 
> version.string R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09) 
> nickname       Smooth Sidewalk 
> 
> Best wishes, 
> Adrian 
> 
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