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
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On my system, pdftexcmds.sty can be found in
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.sty
A quick poking around with 'apt' and 'dpkg-query -L' told me that this
comes from the
texlive-latex-recommended
Ubuntu package. So on my system, if I didn't already have this,
sudo apt
В Fri, 1 Mar 2024 10:46:53 -0500
Benjamin Tyner 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
This really is all LaTeX errors, not R errors. Both examples complain that
pdftexcmds.sty is not installed. Most "sty" files are in LaTeX packages. Each
LaTeX distribution has its own way to install packages ... but the difficulty
is usually on the same order of difficulty as installing R
A kind member of R-core suggested this is due to a misconfiguration on
my system, and to post it to the mailing list for troubleshooting.
When trying to build R version 4.3.3, in at least two places during the
process it gives LaTeX errors of the form:
(example 1)
you should 'make
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