Thank you Ivan and Richard...
Short version: a simple "sudo apt install texlive" fixed it.
Longer version (attempt at a post-mortem): previously (back on
2023-11-05) on this same system I built R version 4.3.2; and
/home/btyner/R432/lib/R/doc/NEWS.pdf does exist (and is a valid pdf with
48 pages) from that same install. Likewise before that on 2023-07-02 I
built R version 4.3.1 and the NEWS.pdf is fine (47 pages) there too.
Still not sure how it happened that my system lost track of the
necessary texlive add-ons at some point between 2023-11-05 and now, but
running "sudo apt install texlive" made it clear that
texlive-latex-recommended was indeed one of the culprits as suggested by
Richard.
The following additional packages will be installed:
fonts-texgyre tex-gyre texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended tipa
Suggested packages:
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-recommended-doc
texlive-luatex texlive-pstricks tipa-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-texgyre tex-gyre texlive texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended tipa
In an attempt to figure out what might have happened after 2023-11-05,
zgrep texlive /var/log/dpkg.log.*.gz
revealed some texlive related activity back on 2023-11-23 but no
indication that anything was removed...
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:02:55 install
texlive-binaries:amd64 <none> 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:02:55 status half-installed
texlive-binaries:amd64 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:02:56 status unpacked
texlive-binaries:amd64 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:02:56 install texlive-base:all
<none> 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:02:56 status half-installed
texlive-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:02 status unpacked
texlive-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:02 install
texlive-latex-base:all <none> 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:02 status half-installed
texlive-latex-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:04 status unpacked
texlive-latex-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 configure
texlive-binaries:amd64 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1 <none>
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 status unpacked
texlive-binaries:amd64 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 status half-configured
texlive-binaries:amd64 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 status installed
texlive-binaries:amd64 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 configure
texlive-base:all 2021.20220204-1 <none>
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 status unpacked
texlive-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:05 status half-configured
texlive-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:09 status installed
texlive-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:09 configure
texlive-latex-base:all 2021.20220204-1 <none>
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:09 status unpacked
texlive-latex-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:09 status half-configured
texlive-latex-base:all 2021.20220204-1
/var/log/dpkg.log.4.gz:2023-11-23 11:03:09 status installed
texlive-latex-base:all 2021.20220204-1
One more thing:
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %T " history | grep texlive
revealed that I ran "sudo apt install texlive-latex-base" back on
2024-02-19, so maybe that had something to do with it. Sadly the shell
history does not exist prior to that date.
On 3/2/24 02:42, Ivan Krylov wrote:
В Fri, 1 Mar 2024 10:46:53 -0500
Benjamin Tyner <bty...@gmail.com> пишет:
my platform info:
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Quick things first: have you installed all the build-dependencies? apt
build-dep r-base (maybe with --install-suggests? haven't tried that in
a while) should do that. In particular, the build dependencies include
texlive-fonts-extra and texlive-latex-extra. That's a lot of packages,
but some of them are required to compile LaTeX documents produced by R.
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.
Can you compile a minimal LaTeX document? Something like:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[ \mathbf{y} = \mathbf{X} \beta \]
\end{document}
Does tools::texi2pdf('THISFILE.tex') fail with a similar error message?
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