[R] Compiling Rgraphiz on Windows 7 64bit with R-2.13.0

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 26/05/2011 10:25 AM, jirivoller wrote:
> Hello,
> This tread helped me to finally move somewhere with rgraphviz installation.
> But it seems there is a problem with vignette creation.   I have the same
> configuration as Ben (Win7 -64bit,R-2.13.0, Rtools version
> 2.13.0.1901,graphviz from goodies) and did the changes suggested by Martin.
> The package version is Rgraphviz_1.30.1.tar.gz.
> Is there some solution? Thank you.
>
> * checking for file '.\Rgraphviz/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'Rgraphviz':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * cleaning src
> * installing the package to re-build vignettes
> * creating vignettes ... ERROR
> Loading required package: graph
> Loading required package: grid
> Warning in sub(object$syntax$docexpr, val, chunk[pos[1L]]) :
>    argument 'replacement' has length>  1 and only the first element will be
> used
> Error in texi2dvi(file = bft, pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet = quiet) :
>    pdflatex is not available
> Calls:<Anonymous>  ->  texi2dvi
> Execution halted

 From the error message, it looks as though this isn't really anything 
to do with Rgraphviz, it's your tex installation that isn't working.  
However, that might be misleading:  there was a bug in 2.13.0 that made 
system() sometimes fail.  The current R-patched should fix that.

So I'd check that pdflatex works as a command with the path you're 
using.  If not, install MikTeX or some other tex version.  If so, then 
it's probably a problem in R:  so install R-patched.

If neither of those suggestions work, then I guess you'll have to do 
some debugging on your own...

Duncan Murdoch