R devel - Feb 2013 - Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

G'day,

I'm trying to build R using the code from SVN. I am able to successfully 
build the source from here:

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.2.tar.gz

However, when building the code checked out from SVN (either from 2.15.2 
tag, or the trunk) I get the following error:


Error: running Sweave on vignette 
'/home/jonathon/projects/R/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw' 
failed with message:
  chunk 2
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
   unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'
Execution halted
make[1]: *** [vignettes] Error 1


Is there a way I can fix this?

with thanks

Jonathon Love

On 13-02-03 9:52 PM, Jonathon Love wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I'm trying to build R using the code from SVN. I am able to
successfully
> build the source from here:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.2.tar.gz
>
> However, when building the code checked out from SVN (either from 2.15.2
> tag, or the trunk) I get the following error:
>
>
> Error: running Sweave on vignette
> '/home/jonathon/projects/R/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
> failed with message:
>    chunk 2
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>     unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'
> Execution halted
> make[1]: *** [vignettes] Error 1
>
>
> Is there a way I can fix this?
Probably, but if you want help you're going to need to give some more 
information first, such as what exactly you installed from SVN, what OS 
you are using, what target you tried to build, and anything else 
necessary so that a potential helper can duplicate what you did.

Duncan Murdoch