On Mon, 18 May 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote:
Michael,
CRAN R comes configured with MacTeX, see also
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-April/006129.html
One of the problems is that PATH settings on OS X differ between LS-started
apps, shells etc., so it is in general problematic to get the path right in
all circumstances, so currently the CRAN binary assumes the most common
distribution.
True, but here we talking about R_PDFLATEXCMD, which is only used by
Rd2dvi, which is AFAIK only called via R CMD and so from a shell. I
would have thought that 'R_PDFLATEXCMD=pdflatex' (so looking on the
path) was a better default for a binary distribution.
You can always set R_PDFLATEXCMD (or PDFLATEX) if the distributed
binary is not right for you.
R CMD check does do a check for a workable pdflatex, but it seems it
looks at the environment variable PDFLATEX not R_PDFLATEXCMD: I'll
update it.
Cheers,
Simon
On May 17, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Michael Höhle wrote:
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Dear R-Sig-Mac,
Regarding Ji-Ping's problem I experienced a similar issue after having
upgraded to 2.9.0 on my Mac. The checking of the PDF manual causes
warnings and the following check of PDF version without index causes an
error.
$ tail -n 4 00check.log
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without index ... ERROR
The interesting part is that when uploading the <package>.tar.gz file to
Uwe Ligges win-builder website, the package compiles without warnings or
errors on Windows.
Furthermore, the document compiles without any errors when manually
compiling the resulting <package>-manual.pdf in the ..Rcheck folder with
pdflatex.
However, when trying to generate the manual with:
$ R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf .
Hmm ... looks like a package
Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
<snip>
Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2dvi: line 228:
/usr/texbin/pdflatex: No such file or directory
Error in running pdflatex command ('/usr/texbin/pdflatex')
It appears as if the new 2.9.0 searches for pdflatex in
/usr/texbin/pdflatex
however, my pdflatex is located in e.g.
$ which pdflatex
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
When setting up a symlink to /usr/texbin R CMD check worked fine. So the
problem appears to have to do with R looking for pdflatex in the "wrong"
place?
Best regards,
Michael
P.S. For the record:
$ which pdflatex
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
$ latex --version
pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
locale:
C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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