[R-SIG-Mac] “pdflatex is not available” from “R CMD check”

[David Winsemius]

I just noticed the date on this message as having been sent on Jan 26 but not received until today (Feb22). I'm also seeing several other R-SIG-Mac items from prior months showing up today.

Am I the only one getting delayed delivery?

-- 
David.

On Jan 26, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:

> Hello:  
> 
> 
> 	  What should I do to diagnose and fix “pdflatex is not available” from “R CMD check” on a Mac running OS X 10.10.1 (see below for more details including sessionInfo.)?  
> 
> 
> 	  A blog on "Building R packages: missing path to pdflatex” (http://www.r-bloggers.com/building-r-packages-missing-path-to-pdflatex/ <http://www.r-bloggers.com/building-r-packages-missing-path-to-pdflatex/>) suggested the following:  
> 
> 
> Sys.which("pdflatex”) 
> # "" 
> Sys.getenv("PATH")
> # [1] "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin”
> 
> 
> 	  However, the suggested fix did not work for me.  
> 
> 
> 		    1.  How can I determine if pdflatex is installed?  
> 
> 
> 		    2.  If it is, how can I find it?  If it’s not, what i the recommended install procedure?  
> 
> 
> 	  Thanks 
> 	  Spencer Graves
> 
> 
> ##########
> 
> 
>> R CMD check … 
> ...
> * 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(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
>  pdflatex is not available
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
>  pdflatex is not available
> Error in running tools::texi2pdf()
> You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /var/folders/mh/mrm_14nx19g13lsnj9zmvwjr0000gn/T//RtmpjOTCtB/Rd2pdf1651fa89c1’
> 
> #####
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
> [7] base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.1.2
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA