R devel - Mar 2009 - CRAN package check on MacOS: sh: line 1: gs: command not found

Dear R developers,

I recently observed a NOTE on several MaxOS X package checks:

sh: line 1: gs: command not found
!!! Error: Closing Ghostscript (exit status: 127)!
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: thumbpdf exited with bad status, quitting.


See for details:

http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/simecol-00check.html

or

http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/fxregime-00check.html


Does anybody know what's wrong here?

Thanks a lot

Thomas Petzoldt


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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Thomas Petzoldt wrote:
> Dear R developers,
>
> I recently observed a NOTE on several MaxOS X package checks:
>
> sh: line 1: gs: command not found
> !!! Error: Closing Ghostscript (exit status: 127)!
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: thumbpdf exited with bad status, quitting.
>
>
> See for details:
>
>
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/simecol-00check.html
>
> or
>
>
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/fxregime-00check.html
>
>
> Does anybody know what's wrong here?
Almost certainly a problem on the Mac build machine.  So

1) Asking on R-sig-mac is more likely to get an answer
2) I believe Simon Urbanek is travelling and only he can do anything 
about that machine.

Unfortunately there are rather a lot of problems with the MacOS 
checks, so I tend to ignore them (but then I do have a Mac or two of 
my own to check on).
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Thomas Petzoldt
>
>
> -- 
> Thomas Petzoldt
> Technische Universitaet Dresden
> Institut fuer Hydrobiologie        thomas.petzoldt at tu-dresden.de
> 01062 Dresden                      http://tu-dresden.de/hydrobiologie/
> GERMANY
>
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