[R-SIG-Mac] obsolete LaTeX software in "R CMD check" on Mac?

[Ken Beath]

Your package passes checks on my machine perfectly. It has R 4.0.0 with RStudio and TexLive 2020 with updates to a week or two ago.

Ken

> On 13 May 2020, at 8:17 am, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using prodsyse.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, All:
> 
> 
>       Might "R CMD check" on Mac use obsolete LaTeX software?
> 
> 
>       I ask, because "R CMD check" on my Mac started reporting LaTeX 
> errors on *.Rd files that previously passed "R CMD check" without 
> problems.  Dirk Eddelbuettel recommended I ask tex.stackexchange about 
> that.  I did that and got the following:
> 
> 
>             * "In a current tex system \textasciigrave should work with 
> your families - they don't have the glyph but latex will fall back 
> without error. In older systems it could give an error."
> 
> 
> See:
> 
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/543783/package-textcomp-error-symbol-textasciigrave-not-provided
> 
> 
>       Comments?
>       Thanks,
>       Spencer Graves
> 
> 
> p.s.  An earlier post on this issue to r-pkg-devel is copied below.
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	[R-pkg-devel] Error: Symbol \textasciigrave not provided by 
> (textcomp)
> Date: 	Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:21:17 -0600
> From: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org>
> To: 	r-package-devel using r-project.org
> 
> 
> 
> Hello, All:
> 
> 
>       "R CMD check Ecfun_0.2-4.tar.gz" ends with 8 repetitions of the 
> following:
> 
> 
> ! Package textcomp Error: Symbol \textasciigrave not provided by
> (textcomp)                font family zi4 in TS1 encoding.
> (textcomp)                Default family used instead.
> 
> See the textcomp package documentation for explanation.
> * checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR
> * DONE
> 
> 
>       This is using R 3.6.2 under macOS 10.15.3 applied to the current 
> development version of "https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecfun".  Travis 
> CI reported that the build passed;  see 
> "https://travis-ci.org/sbgraves237/Ecfun/builds/650505913?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=email". 
> 
> 
> 
>       This looks to me like it's complaining about the use of the back 
> tick character ("`", below "~" on the top left key on a standard 
> American English keyboard), which I assume is equivalent to 
> "\textasciigrave" in certain contexts.
> 
> 
>       Six out of those 8 repetitions occur in the examples sections of 
> files "grepNonStandardCharacters.Rd", "subNonStandardCharacters.Rd", and 
> "subNonStandardNames.Rd". Those functions were written to fix parsing 
> errors with names like "Raúl" that had been mangled by different 
> software before I could get it into R.
> 
> 
>       After a day's work failed to produce a work around, I decided to 
> ask this group.
> 
> 
>       What do you suggest?
>       Thanks,
>       Spencer Graves
> 
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