On 25/05/2014, 6:17 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
Hi all,
I realize that this is not an R question, but in attempting to build a new
version of a package, I have encountered the error:
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, :
pdflatex is not available
As I could not find any way to install pdflatex (it didn't appear on a yum
search), I tried a method that claimed to install pdflatex via a package
named "texlive". Almost 300 packages later and minus over 300 Mb of
disk space, I then got the error:
! LaTeX Error: File `zi4.sty' not found.
This seems to be an updated version of the "inconsolata.sty" error that
used to torment me (and after reading a lot of messages about this,
many other people as well), so I found the file "zi4.sty" and copied it into
what I thought was the appropriate directory. It seems to be, as I now get
the error:
! LaTeX Error: File `upquote.sty' not found.
At this point, I wonder if someone would be kind enough to inform me
whether this is a potentially infinite task of finding ".sty" files, in which
case I will live without them, or if there is an easier method of satisfying
the apparently immense appetite of LaTeX? Thanks.
I don't use TeXLive, but most LaTeX distributions offer a way to
automatically install packages as needed.
But if you can't find it, you can just install them one by one: it's
not actually an infinite task. I believe there are only about 4700
packages on CTAN (the equivalent of CRAN for TeX, in fact I believe it
was the first C*AN). At 5 minutes per attempt, you'll be done in a
couple of weeks!
Duncan Murdoch
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