R help - Dec 2003 - Rcmd check package failure

Hi all,

recently, i tried making a package with my own functions - which worked fine,
until i reinstalled MikTex (in Win2000). Now i get the error message:

* checking for working latex ... NO
* using log directory 'C:/Rlibs/R4PG.Rcheck'
* checking for file 'R4PG/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK

 ERROR
Installation failed.

But i set the path to MikTex, and "latex" as well as
"pdftex" both run in the (Win) command window.
I use R1.81 but also tried in R1.71.

Any ideas?


Remko

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Remko Duursma, Ph.D. student
Forest Biometrics Lab / Idaho Stable Isotope Lab
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, U.S.A.

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Remko Duursma wrote:
> recently, i tried making a package with my own functions - which worked
> fine, until i reinstalled MikTex (in Win2000). Now i get the error
> message:
> 
> * checking for working latex ... NO
> * using log directory 'C:/Rlibs/R4PG.Rcheck'
> * checking for file 'R4PG/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
Was there nothing here at all?
>  ERROR
> Installation failed.
That's an installation failure.  Do run Rcmd INSTALL first to check that 
you can install the package: you may well get more informative error 
messages.
> But i set the path to MikTex, and "latex" as well as
"pdftex" both run in the (Win) command window.
> I use R1.81 but also tried in R1.71.
> 
> Any ideas?
Look again, more carefully.  According to `check' you do not have latex in
your path, even if you think you do. But the installation failure has some
other cause.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

Ok, here is the complete output. MikTex is really in the path - i doublechecked
by running it in c:\Rlibs (both "latex" and "pdftex" work).
I get no additional error messages, and i use the example from ?package.skeleton
(and updated the DESCRIPTION file).

[[WIN2000 command Prompt]]:

C:\Rlibs>path
PATH=c:\Program files\R\rw1081\bin;d:\perl\bin;c:\Program files\HTML Help Worksh
op;c:\texmf\miktex\bin

C:\Rlibs>Rcmd check AnExample
* checking for working latex ... NO
* using log directory 'C:/Rlibs/AnExample.Rcheck'
* checking for file 'AnExample/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK

 ERROR
Installation failed.

C:\Rlibs>Rcmd install AnExample

*** Installation of AnExample failed ***

C:\Rlibs>


thanks,

Remko
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^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'
Remko Duursma, Ph.D. student
Forest Biometrics Lab / Idaho Stable Isotope Lab
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, U.S.A.

--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:41:50
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Remko Duursma <den.duurs at lycos.com>
Cc: rhelp <r-help at r-project.org>
>On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Remko Duursma wrote:
>
>> recently, i tried making a package with my own functions - which worked
>> fine, until i reinstalled MikTex (in Win2000). Now i get the error
>> message:
>> 
>> * checking for working latex ... NO
>> * using log directory 'C:/Rlibs/R4PG.Rcheck'
>> * checking for file 'R4PG/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>
>Was there nothing here at all?
>
>>  ERROR
>> Installation failed.
>
>That's an installation failure.  Do run Rcmd INSTALL first to check that
>you can install the package: you may well get more informative error 
>messages.
>
>> But i set the path to MikTex, and "latex" as well as
"pdftex" both run in the (Win) command window.
>> I use R1.81 but also tried in R1.71.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>
>Look again, more carefully.  According to `check' you do not have latex
in
>your path, even if you think you do. But the installation failure has some
>other cause.
>
>-- 
>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>
>