Hi Ben, For whatever is is worth, I do have (on an M4)
% find /usr/local -name blkarray.sty /usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/tex/latex/blkarray/blkarray.sty and I don't recall doing anything special to get it. So yes, most likely there's a glitch in the TeX install on the macos-arm64 builder. -pd > On 3 Dec 2025, at 01.10, Ben Bolker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not a regular reader of r-sig-mac, but have a question about CRAN LaTeX > infrastructure for MacOS. > > This may be a question specifically for Simon Urbanek, but thought I'd check > here first in case anyone has insights. > > I recently sent a new version of the lme4 package (1.1-38) to CRAN; it > passed all the incoming tests, but I'm now seeing warnings (at > https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_lme4.html) from the > r-release-macos-arm64 and r-oldrel-macos-arm64 (but *not* from the x86_64 > platforms): > > > ! LaTeX Error: File `blkarray.sty' not found. > > This hasn't happened before. Furthermore, when I go back in the git log for > the package I see: > > commit 3140cc0f1b394c6888d7704ee3d5de5f45df2886 > Author: Ben Bolker <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Aug 10 10:28:55 2017 -0400 > > .Rbuildignore blkarray.sty as per CRAN request > > In particular, Kurt Hornik sent a mass e-mail in 2017 to many package > maintainers saying: > > > These [packages] contain copies of standard LaTeX .sty files which should > > be excluded from the package (as shipping these copies should not be > > necessary, and may even cause trouble in case the local copies become > > outdated [as just happened for a recent CRAN submission]). > > So my best guess is that this is an oversight/platform glitch on the arm64 > platforms ... > > Thoughts? > > sincerely > Ben Bolker > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
