On 25/05/2014 12:34, peter dalgaard wrote:
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.
I don't believe many do. See
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installing_Extra_Packages .
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.
This is OK if your distribution is not a few years behind the times,
which in the case of texlive, some are.
If you install R from the sources it will adapt to the LaTeX packages it
finds, and you can set R_RD4PDF to customize afterwards.
Section A.1 of the 'R Installation and Administration manual' says
A number of LaTeX packages are required (including url.sty, and
listings.sty) and others such as hyperref and inconsolata are desirable
(and without them you may need to change R’s defaults: see Making the
manuals).
But it seems listings.sty is not needed for most packages.
I am guessing this is package plotrix. To check that package I need
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/bm.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/alltt.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/inconsolata/inconsolata.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-hyperref.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-generic.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/auxhook.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/rerunfilecheck.sty
) (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/upquote/upquote.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/gettitlestring.sty
Of those, only url, inconsolata, hyperref and its dependants and upquote
are non-standard, and upquote is required by that version of inconsolata.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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