Re: [R] installation: while running make, unable to run pdflatex on 'NEWS.tex'

2024-03-02 Thread Benjamin Tyner
Thank you Ivan and Richard... Short version: a simple "sudo apt install texlive" fixed it. Longer version (attempt at a post-mortem): previously (back on 2023-11-05) on this same system I built R version 4.3.2; and /home/btyner/R432/lib/R/doc/NEWS.pdf does exist (and is a valid pdf with 48 pa

Re: [R] installation: while running make, unable to run pdflatex on 'NEWS.tex'

2024-03-02 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On my system, pdftexcmds.sty can be found in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.sty A quick poking around with 'apt' and 'dpkg-query -L' told me that this comes from the texlive-latex-recommended Ubuntu package. So on my system, if I didn't already have this, sudo apt

Re: [R] installation: while running make, unable to run pdflatex on 'NEWS.tex'

2024-03-01 Thread Ivan Krylov via R-help
В Fri, 1 Mar 2024 10:46:53 -0500 Benjamin Tyner пишет: > my platform info: > > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Quick things first: have you installed all the build-dependencies? apt build-dep r-base (maybe with --install-suggests? haven't tried

Re: [R] installation: while running make, unable to run pdflatex on 'NEWS.tex'

2024-03-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-help
This really is all LaTeX errors, not R errors. Both examples complain that pdftexcmds.sty is not installed. Most "sty" files are in LaTeX packages. Each LaTeX distribution has its own way to install packages ... but the difficulty is usually on the same order of difficulty as installing R packag