It sounds like you're on a Mac? Then you need to install MacTeX, http://www.tug.org/mactex/ to get pdflatex.
Sarah On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 7:11 PM Cathy Lee Gierke <leegi...@umn.edu> wrote: > Does anyone know why I might get this error? > > 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/0m/41bxx35j5x9f_tks7zrd7jh00000gn/T//Rtmpuv00M5/Rd2pdf8f2a123193cb' > > * checking for detritus in the temp directory ... OK > > * DONE > > > > There are no clues in the Rdlatex.log > I have attached the ...manual.tex file. Is there a way to check it for > non-ascii or non-printing characters on a Mac? I have had that problem > before, but I'm not finding any now. Maybe I have the wrong command? > > > find /Users/user/CATkit/CATkit/man | perl -ne 'print if /[^[:ascii:]]/' > > find /Users/user/CATkit/CATkit/man/CatCall.rd | perl -ne 'print if > /[^[:ascii:]]/' > > > Should there be a pdf file somewhere? > > Thanks, > Cathy Lee Gierke > > > <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_> > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Sarah Goslee (she/her) http://www.sarahgoslee.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel