On 25 May 2014, at 12:56 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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! > However, before you do that, do check that your friendly distribution maintainers haven't already made things available by making pdflatex and friends a dependency of an R-devel (or so) meta-package. I'm getting a bit rusty on Fedora, but as far as I recall, you can "yum search" for packages that contain a specific .sty file. In general, try to use the yum discipline when installing; it is so much easier to get things done right that way than it is to maintain your own texmf tree and/or mucking around in a system-installed one. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
