Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem persists, was Re: Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

2023-10-09 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-package-devel
R could care less about what is in PATH... there is however a difference between Windows parsing PATH and how CMD lets you quote things interactively. The whole point of PATH is to let you or R provide simple program names like qpdf without knowing where they are... Windows takes over and looks

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem persists, was Re: Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

2023-10-09 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Ivan (and list) Using Ivan's advice I traced the problem to a difference of opinio between Microsoft and R about paht names. I had mistakenly enclosed parts of the names in "" which was fine for MS but not R. Sys.which() was my saviour here. Many thanks to Ivan for broadening my

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem persists, was Re: Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

2023-10-09 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Sun, 8 Oct 2023 16:47:41 +0100 Michael Dewey wrote: > Following on from Ivan's advice I have now installed qpdf and > Ghostview. I have checked that they are both on my path by typing > their name at the command line and verifying they open. > I then built the package with the

[R-pkg-devel] Problem persists, was Re: Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

2023-10-08 Thread Michael Dewey
Following on from Ivan's advice I have now installed qpdf and Ghostview. I have checked that they are both on my path by typing their name at the command line and verifying they open. I then built the package with the --compress-vignettes=both and then checked it with --as-cran I still get a