A kind member of R-core suggested this is due to a misconfiguration on
my system, and to post it to the mailing list for troubleshooting.
When trying to build R version 4.3.3, in at least two places during the
process it gives LaTeX errors of the form:
(example 1)
you should 'make docs' now ...
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/btyner/R-4.3.3/doc'
creating doc/NEWS
creating doc/NEWS.pdf
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet =
quiet, :
unable to run pdflatex on 'NEWS.tex'
LaTeX errors:
! LaTeX Error: File `pdftexcmds.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
! Emergency stop.
<read *>
l.108 RequirePackage{pdftexcmds}[2018/09/10]
^^M
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
Execution halted
make[1]: /*/ [Makefile:74: NEWS.pdf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/btyner/R-4.3.3/doc'
make: [Makefile:73: docs] Error 2 (ignored)
(example 2)
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/btyner/R-4.3.3/src/library'
building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
building/updating vignettes for package 'stats' ...
processing 'reshape.Rnw'
Error: compiling TeX file 'reshape.tex' failed with message:
unable to run pdflatex on 'reshape.tex'
LaTeX errors:
! LaTeX Error: File `pdftexcmds.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
! Emergency stop.
<read *>
l.108 RequirePackage{pdftexcmds}[2018/09/10]
^^M
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Execution halted
make[1]: ** [Makefile:103: vignettes] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/btyner/R-4.3.3/src/library'
make: ** [Makefile:81: vignettes] Error 2
here is my |pdflatex --version| info:
pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.3.4/dev
Compiled with libpng 1.6.37; using libpng 1.6.37
Compiled with zlib 1.2.11; using zlib 1.2.11
Compiled with xpdf version 4.03
my platform info:
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
I installed from this file with corresponding md5sum
R-4.3.3.tar.xz 5602f5996107c346dba12a16e866d2e2
The specific commands I ran which led to the error were:
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.3.3.tar.xz
mkdir R433
tar xJf R-4.3.3.tar.xz
cd R-4.3.3
./configure --prefix=/home/btyner/R433
make
Happy to provide any additional information needed.
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