Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)
Dan, On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org wrote: R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has installed it in /usr/bin. No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from texinfo which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz Cheers, Simon $ R CMD build IRanges * checking for file 'IRanges/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'IRanges': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src * installing the package to build vignettes * creating vignettes ... ERROR [...] Warning in sub(object$syntax$docexpr, val, chunk[pos[1L]]) : argument 'replacement' has length 1 and only the first element will be used Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : Running 'texi2dvi' on 'IRangesOverview.tex' failed. Messages: sh: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: No such file or directory Calls: Anonymous - texi2pdf - texi2dvi Execution halted That's with: R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-11 r67421) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base The same command works without error on: R Under development (unstable) (2014-11-11 r66970) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Setting options(texi2dvi='/usr/bin/texi2dvi') in my ~/.Rprofile did not help, I suspect because R CMD build runs buildVignettes() in a subprocess started with --vanilla. Creating a symlink from /usr/bin/texi2dvi to /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi gave me a too many levels of symbolic links error. Making it a hard link works, but seems like a real hack (what if the executable was not relocatable?). Thanks in advance, Dan __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)
R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has installed it in /usr/bin. $ R CMD build IRanges * checking for file 'IRanges/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'IRanges': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src * installing the package to build vignettes * creating vignettes ... ERROR [...] Warning in sub(object$syntax$docexpr, val, chunk[pos[1L]]) : argument 'replacement' has length 1 and only the first element will be used Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : Running 'texi2dvi' on 'IRangesOverview.tex' failed. Messages: sh: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: No such file or directory Calls: Anonymous - texi2pdf - texi2dvi Execution halted That's with: R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-11 r67421) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base The same command works without error on: R Under development (unstable) (2014-11-11 r66970) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Setting options(texi2dvi='/usr/bin/texi2dvi') in my ~/.Rprofile did not help, I suspect because R CMD build runs buildVignettes() in a subprocess started with --vanilla. Creating a symlink from /usr/bin/texi2dvi to /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi gave me a too many levels of symbolic links error. Making it a hard link works, but seems like a real hack (what if the executable was not relocatable?). Thanks in advance, Dan __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)
- Original Message - From: Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com To: Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org Cc: R-devel r-devel@r-project.org Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 8:40:07 PM Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel) On 12/01/2015 6:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org To: Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org Cc: R-devel r-devel@r-project.org Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel) Dan, On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org wrote: R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has installed it in /usr/bin. No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from texinfo which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if so, where was it? It has been in the NEWS file since Jan 6. You can see it there, and would have seen it announced here: http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/01/06#n2015-01-06 Thanks, I'll subscribe to these feeds. Dan Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)
On 12/01/2015 6:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org To: Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org Cc: R-devel r-devel@r-project.org Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel) Dan, On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org wrote: R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has installed it in /usr/bin. No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from texinfo which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if so, where was it? It has been in the NEWS file since Jan 6. You can see it there, and would have seen it announced here: http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/01/06#n2015-01-06 Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
