On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:31 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Spencer Graves <[email protected]>
> 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”)
That had fancy-quotes. When corrected I see:
> Sys.which("pdflatex")
pdflatex
"/usr/texbin/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’
>
>
> Spencer,
>
> First question would be, have you installed MacTex, which includes all the
> required components?
>
> If not, then visit:
>
> https://tug.org/mactex/
>
> MacTex 2014 is the current version. There are also some Yosemite specific
> notes here:
>
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/yosemite.html
>
> The package should modify your $PATH upon installation, so that it includes:
>
> /usr/texbin
>
> and Sys.which("pdflatex") in the R console run from the OS X terminal should
> return:
>
>> Sys.which("pdflatex")
> pdflatex
> "/usr/texbin/pdflatex"
>
>
> I would check:
>
> $PATH
>
> and:
>
> which pdflatex
When I run that in a Terminal session I get (nothing) whereas I do have MacTex
installed:
david-winsemiuss-mac-pro:~ davidwinsemius$ which pdflatex
david-winsemiuss-mac-pro:~ davidwinsemius$ ls /usr/texbin
T1Wrap dvilj gftopk mktexpk
pooltype texdiff
a2ping dvilj2p gftype
mktextfm ppower4 texdirflatten
afm2afm dvilj4 gsftopk mllatex
ps2eps texdoc
afm2pl dvilj4l hbf2gf mltex
ps2frag texdoctk
Snipped output....
>
> from the OS X terminal (not in an R session), just to be sure that you don't
> get different results there, as compared to what you are getting in R. In
> theory, the OS X terminal should provide the definitive response, whereas
> running some applications/GUI's, may not pick up (inherit) the system path.
>
> You can also check:
>
> ls /usr/texbin
>
> which contains links to the actual installation in:
>
> ls /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin
>
> to see if MacTex 2014 has been installed (it should show a large number of
> files and links, including pdflatex). If you have a prior version, then the
> path would be:
>
> ls /usr/local/texlive/YYYY/...
The paths for Terminal sessions are different than for R sessions (and I'm the
wrong person to ask why, or how to synchronize, or even whether they _should_
be synchronized.)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
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