... and whether or not Rich's suggestion resolves your difficulties, please google such issues in future; e.g.
"report bugs R" brought up all sorts of info on R bug reporting. -- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Peter Carbonetto <peter.carbone...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I uncovered a bug in installing R 3.4.0 from source in Linux, following the > standard procedure (configure; make; make install). Is this an appropriate > place to report this bug? If not, can you please direct me to the > appropriate place? > > The error occurs only when I do "make clean" followed by "make" again; make > works the first time. > > The error is a failure to build NEWS.pdf: > > Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : > pdflatex is not available > Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi > Execution halted > make[1]: *** [NEWS.pdf] Error 1 > make: [docs] Error 2 (ignored) > > and can be reproduced wit the following sequence: > > ./configure > make > make clean > make > > This suggests to me that perhaps "make clean" is not working. > > I'm happy to provide more details so that you are able to reproduce the bug. > > Thanks, > > Peter Carbonetto, Ph.D. > Computational Staff Scientist, Statistics & Genetics > Research Computing Center > University of Chicago > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.