R devel - Jan 2015 - R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place
(R-devel)
> 
> Dan,
> 
> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at
fredhutch.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for
> > texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has
> > installed it in /usr/bin.
> > 
> 
> No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from texinfo
> which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since
> OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
> 
Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if so, where was
it?

Dan


> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> > $ R CMD build IRanges
> > * checking for file 'IRanges/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> > * preparing 'IRanges':
> > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> > * cleaning src
> > * installing the package to build vignettes
> > * creating vignettes ... ERROR
> > [...]
> > Warning in sub(object$syntax$docexpr, val, chunk[pos[1L]]) :
> >  argument 'replacement' has length > 1 and only the first
element
> >  will be used
> > Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet >
> quiet,  :
> >  Running 'texi2dvi' on 'IRangesOverview.tex' failed.
> > Messages:
> > sh: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: No such file or directory
> > Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
> > Execution halted
> > 
> > That's with:
> > 
> > R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-11 r67421)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> > Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)
> > 
> > locale:
> > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >   base
> > 
> > The same command works without error on:
> > 
> > R Under development (unstable) (2014-11-11 r66970)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> > 
> > locale:
> > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >   base
> > 
> > Setting
> > options(texi2dvi='/usr/bin/texi2dvi')
> > 
> > in my ~/.Rprofile did not help, I suspect because R CMD build runs
> > buildVignettes() in a subprocess started with --vanilla. Creating
> > a symlink from /usr/bin/texi2dvi to /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi gave
> > me a "too many levels of symbolic links" error. Making it a
hard
> > link works, but seems like a real hack (what if the executable was
> > not relocatable?).
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dan
> > 
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
> > 
> 
>

On 12/01/2015 6:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
>> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place
(R-devel)
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at
fredhutch.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for
>>> texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has
>>> installed it in /usr/bin.
>>>
>>
>> No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from
texinfo
>> which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since
>> OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from
>>
>> http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
>>
> 
> Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if so, where
was it?
It has been in the NEWS file since Jan 6.  You can see it there, and
would have seen it announced here:

http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/01/06#n2015-01-06

Duncan Murdoch

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>,
"Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 8:40:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place
(R-devel)
> 
> On 12/01/2015 6:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at
r-project.org>
> >> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> >> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong
> >> place (R-devel)
> >>
> >> Dan,
> >>
> >> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum
> >> <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking
for
> >>> texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has
> >>> installed it in /usr/bin.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from
> >> texinfo
> >> which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since
> >> OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from
> >>
> >> http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if
> > so, where was it?
> 
> It has been in the NEWS file since Jan 6.  You can see it there, and
> would have seen it announced here:
> 
> http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/01/06#n2015-01-06
> 
Thanks, I'll subscribe to these feeds.
Dan

> Duncan Murdoch
>