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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 21/03/2015 12:38, Adrian Dușa wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>         [...]
>
>         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:
>
>
>     What does R.app (there is no R.gui to my knowledge) have to do with
>     this?  See the comment above about 'exactly what you did'.
>
>
> Oh, that's right.
> I used R.app as well because I have also tried the devtools package
> which has a check() function... same result (just to test if it was a
> path issue).
>
> Indeed, this error comes from the R CMD check command in terminal (sorry
> to confuse "building" with the command R CMD build), with the complete
> messages below:
>
> Adrians-MBP:~ dusadrian$ R CMD check --as-cran DDIwR_0.2-5.tar.gz
> * using log directory ‘/Users/dusadrian/DDIwR.Rcheck’
> * using R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)
> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> * using session charset: UTF-8
> * using option ‘--as-cran’
> * checking for file ‘DDIwR/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
> * this is package ‘DDIwR’ version ‘0.2-5’
> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... Note_to_CRAN_maintainers
> Maintainer: ‘Adrian Dusa <dusa.adrian at unibuc.ro
> <mailto:dusa.adrian at unibuc.ro>>’
> * checking package namespace information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking if there is a namespace ... OK
> * checking for executable files ... OK
> * checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
> * checking whether package ‘DDIwR’ can be installed ... OK
> * checking installed package size ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking for left-over files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> * checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies
> ... OK
> * checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> * checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK
> * checking dependencies in R code ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking R code for possible problems ... OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd metadata ... OK
> * checking Rd line widths ... OK
> * checking Rd cross-references ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking Rd contents ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
> * checking contents of ‘data’ directory ... OK
> * checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... OK
> * checking examples ... OK
> * 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
>
> WARNING: There was 1 warning.
> See
>    ‘/Users/dusadrian/DDIwR.Rcheck/00check.log’
> for details.
>
>
> There is nothing more in the 00check.log file, just indicating Rd problems.

There usually is, and the absence indicates no latex log was found.

So the next step is to run R CMD Rd2pdf --no-clean on the unpacked 
package sources and look at the logs in its check directory.  You may 
need to run texi2dvi -D --pdf on the .tex file produced there.

>
> Thank you,
> Adrian
>
> --
> Adrian Dusa
> University of Bucharest
> Romanian Social Data Archive
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> 050663 Bucharest sector 5
> Romania


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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