Re: [Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

2013-02-05 Thread Jonathon Love
yup. that fixed it. thanks for your help. there are a handful of extra files in the source tarball (some pdfs, etc.), that aren't in the SVN. it appears that building these requires a bunch more stuff installed, and that's why building the source tarball worked, but not the SVN contents. wit

Re: [Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

2013-02-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 February 2013 at 01:27, Jonathon Love wrote: | On 04/02/13 23:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | > Probably, but if you want help you're going to need to give some more | > information first, such as what exactly you installed from SVN, what OS | > you are using, what target you tried to build, a

Re: [Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

2013-02-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well, if all else fails read the manual: The PDF documentation (including doc/NEWS.pdf) and building vignettes needs tex and latex, or pdftex and pdflatex. We require LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later (for UTF-8 support). Building PDF package manuals (including the R reference manual) and vign

Re: [Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

2013-02-04 Thread Jonathon Love
On 04/02/13 23:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Probably, but if you want help you're going to need to give some more > information first, such as what exactly you installed from SVN, what OS > you are using, what target you tried to build, and anything else > necessary so that a potential helper can d

Re: [Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

2013-02-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-02-03 9:52 PM, Jonathon Love wrote: G'day, I'm trying to build R using the code from SVN. I am able to successfully build the source from here: http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.2.tar.gz However, when building the code checked out from SVN (either from 2.15.2 tag, or the trun

[Rd] Error building R from SVN - unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'example-1.tex'

2013-02-04 Thread Jonathon Love
G'day, I'm trying to build R using the code from SVN. I am able to successfully build the source from here: http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.2.tar.gz However, when building the code checked out from SVN (either from 2.15.2 tag, or the trunk) I get the following error: Error: