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

[peter dalgaard]

On 22 Feb 2015, at 20:23 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I have a couple from prior _weeks_, but I think Spencer's is the only one from January. Looks like the queue got stuck at ETHZ:

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> 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
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