I think you are decades in the future. We are on R 2.12.x in 2011.
It seems that you don't have texi2dvi installed. Either install it
(it may part of the TeX or texinfo distributions) or set
options(texi2dvi='') (see ?tools::texi2dvi and ?EnvVar). 'Tis also
discussed in the R-admin manual.
The problem here (and what changed from 2.11.x) is that people build R
on one machine and run on another with different software installed,
so the defaults were changed to look on the path. R 2.12.0 is not
current, and 2.12.2 beta has an even more robust search mechanism.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Terry Therneau wrote:
On the local machine the command R11 CMD Rd2pdf survfit.Rd works fine.
R12 CMD Rd2pdf survfit.Rd fails with the message below.
Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
survfit.Rd
Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet =
FALSE, :
Running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed.
Messages:
sh: texi2dvi: command not found
Output:
Error in running tools::texi2dvi
---------------
Here is the header when invoking the newer version:
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
The R11 call is 2.11.0, same machine, same login session.
I've looked in the manuals and didn't see anything specific about
version 12. Our system administrator will want some hints about what to
do to fix this, ere I complain. I discovered it running CMD check on a
package update.
Any pointers?
Terry Therneau
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