The nodes of our cluster do not have pdflatex installed. When
running R CMD check there on a package with no errors in documentation,
then R-2.13.0-alpha and R-2.12.2 report a possible error in Rd files,
while R-2.11.1 did not. The platform is 64 bit CentOS.
The output of
R CMD check tree_1.0-28.tar.gz
under the above three versions of R contains the following.
R-2.11.1
stderr
sh: pdflatex: command not found
sh: latex: command not found
stdout
* checking for working pdflatex ... NO
R-2.12.2
stderr
sh: pdflatex: command not found
Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"),
quiet = FALSE, :
unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'Rd2.tex'
Error in running tools::texi2dvi
stdout
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR
Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
Hmm ... looks like a package
You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /tmp/RtmpgnWKRW/Rd2pdf3723367e'
2.13.0-alpha
stderr
Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"),
quiet = FALSE, :
pdflatex is not available
Error in running tools::texi2dvi
stdout
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR
Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
Hmm ... looks like a package
You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf /tmp/RtmpQ0WawT/Rd2pdf41481e1'
Is it intentional not to test the presence of pdflatex during R CMD check?
Petr Savicky.
