From pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca  Wed Apr  2 11:00:08 2003
From: pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Wed Apr  2 16:58:20 2003
Subject: [Rd] Could not create DVI version
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304020728060.11976-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <3E8AFAF8.8C0121DB@bank-banque-canada.ca>

Brian

I tried LANG=C without success, but it seems there is something in our latex
startup script that causes the problem. The latex call actually executes a csh
script that sets local variables then executes the latex binary. If I bypass the
script and make a direct call to the binary then the problem goes away.

Thanks for your help.

Paul

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > >
> > > I can run R CMD check with current CVS version of R on dse_2003.3-1 on
> > > Solaris 8 successfully (using gcc 3.2, but that's not relevant here).
> >
> > I just confirmed that I get the same problem with that version of dse.
> > I'm using  SunOS 5.8 and perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris.
> >
> > > There is
> > >
> > >   est.wt.variables                  text    html    latex
> > >      missing link(s):  est.min.sqerror
> > >
> > > but that's a long-standing error in your packages.
> >
> > Fixed in my sources now.
> >
> > > This does look like a problem in your Solaris setup.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > In Solaris with R-1.7.0beta from 2003-04-01 I still have a problem with
> > > > > "R CMD check" after I build a package:
> > > > >
> > > > > * creating setRNG-manual.tex ... OK
> > > > > * checking setRNG-manual.tex ... ERROR
> > > > > Could not create DVI version.
> > > > > This typically indicates Rd problems.
> > > > >
> > > > > I can manually gererate the dvi from setRNG-manual.tex, so I don't  think
> > > > > my latex is defective as I speculated last week.
> > >
> > > Your Perl?
> >
> > > > The file texput.log
> > > > > indicates
> > > > >
> > > > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (format=latex 2001.1.12)  1
> > > > > APR 2003 12:09
> > > > > **\nonstopmode\inputsetRNG-manual.tex
> > >                         ^
> > > I get
> > >
> > > **\nonstopmode{}\input{setRNG-manual.tex}
> > >
> > > so something is wrong.
> >
> > Yes. Any suggestions of something else I should try?
> 
> What locale are you using?  Might it be worth using
> 
> setenv LANG=C  (or your shell's equivalent)
> R CMD check dse

> ?  I'm wondering about the input encoding to LaTeX: not that I know much
> about it as an Anglophone.
 
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] Could not create DVI version
Paul Gilbert