R help - Apr 2024 - Building R-4,3,3 fails

? Mon, 8 Apr 2024 11:51:42 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> ?????:
> processing 'reshape.Rnw'
> Error: compiling TeX file 'reshape.tex' failed with message:
> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'reshape.tex' failed.
> Messages:
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs
> \openout lines in its log file
> Execution halted
A Web search suggests that texi2dvi may output this message by mistake
when the TeX installation is subject to a different problem:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191006123002/https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2016-10/msg00036.html

Find the reshape.Rnw file and try running bin/R CMD Sweave
path/to/reshape.Rnw. It should produce reshape.tex. When you run
pdflatex reshape.tex, do you get a more useful error message?

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> A Web search suggests that texi2dvi may output this message by mistake
> when the TeX installation is subject to a different problem:
>
https://web.archive.org/web/20191006123002/https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2016-10/msg00036.html
Ivan,

That thread is 8 years old and may no longer apply to TeXLive2024.
> Find the reshape.Rnw file and try running bin/R CMD Sweave
> path/to/reshape.Rnw. It should produce reshape.tex. When you run pdflatex
> reshape.tex, do you get a more useful error message?
The error occurs when building R. Since R's not installed I cannot run it to
build reshape.tex.

Thanks,

Rich