R devel - Jan 2025 - 87668 fails on Windows 10 with "pdflatex not found"

I see there have been a number of tweaks to the document build
recently (87650, 87654, 87658, 97660, 97661, etc.)

I tried building 87668 today on Windows 10 and received the error
below. Is this related?

Thank you,

Avi

building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
processing 'displaylist.Rnw'
Error: compiling TeX file 'displaylist.tex' failed with message:
pdflatex is not available
Execution halted
building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
processing 'parallel.Rnw'
Error: compiling TeX file 'parallel.tex' failed with message:
pdflatex is not available
Execution halted
building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
Error: running Sweave on vignette
'C:/RDevel/avraham/R/trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
failed with message:
 chunk 2
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
  pdflatex is not available
Execution halted
make[2]: *** [Makefile.win:99: vignettes] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:345: vignettes] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:395: distribution] Error 2

The builder runs tools::texi2pdf() on the vignettes.  Does that give the 
same error for you?  Do earlier revisions work?

Duncan Murdoch

On 2025-01-29 2:20 p.m., Avraham Adler wrote:
> I see there have been a number of tweaks to the document build
> recently (87650, 87654, 87658, 97660, 97661, etc.)
> 
> I tried building 87668 today on Windows 10 and received the error
> below. Is this related?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Avi
> 
> building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
> processing 'displaylist.Rnw'
> Error: compiling TeX file 'displaylist.tex' failed with message:
> pdflatex is not available
> Execution halted
> building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
> processing 'parallel.Rnw'
> Error: compiling TeX file 'parallel.tex' failed with message:
> pdflatex is not available
> Execution halted
> building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
> processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
> Error: running Sweave on vignette
> 'C:/RDevel/avraham/R/trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
> failed with message:
>   chunk 2
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>    pdflatex is not available
> Execution halted
> make[2]: *** [Makefile.win:99: vignettes] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:345: vignettes] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:395: distribution] Error 2
> 
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Am 29.01.25 um 20:20 schrieb Avraham Adler:
> I see there have been a number of tweaks to the document build
> recently (87650, 87654, 87658, 97660, 97661, etc.)
To Rd2pdf, yes, mostly bug fixes for some rare usages. Some more changes 
are in the making, also for texi2pdf (but that has not been touched yet).
> 
> I tried building 87668 today on Windows 10 and received the error
> below. Is this related?
Thanks for checking, it shouldn't be. I doubt the error is related to 
the Rd2pdf changes as that isn't involved in building the vignettes. You 
could try an older revision or maybe R-patched or render a minimal LaTeX 
document using tools::texi2pdf(), to see if the error isn't just related 
to your LaTeX setup. The error suggests that whatever program is set to 
be PDFLATEX on your system, usually pdflatex, cannot be found: smells 
like a PATH issue.

Best regards,

	Sebastian Meyer
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Avi
> 
> building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
> processing 'displaylist.Rnw'
> Error: compiling TeX file 'displaylist.tex' failed with message:
> pdflatex is not available
> Execution halted
> building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
> processing 'parallel.Rnw'
> Error: compiling TeX file 'parallel.tex' failed with message:
> pdflatex is not available
> Execution halted
> building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
> processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
> Error: running Sweave on vignette
> 'C:/RDevel/avraham/R/trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
> failed with message:
>   chunk 2
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>    pdflatex is not available
> Execution halted
> make[2]: *** [Makefile.win:99: vignettes] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:345: vignettes] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:395: distribution] Error 2
> 
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