Hi! I'm using TinyTex to build PDF documents through Travis-CI and I have the same error. When I run build that passed one or two weeks ago, it failed to build PDF documents due to this error.

I've noticed that the grffile package was updated few days ago, maybe it's broken something?

clementviolet on 10 Nov 2019

I just experienced the exact same problem. Everything worked fine until yesterday, then I updated through tlmgr_update and that must have caused the problem. grffile.sty cannot be installed through tlmgr_install either. I get the following error message:

> tlmgr_install('grffile.sty')
tlmgr install grffile.sty
tlmgr install: package grffile.sty not present in repository.
tlmgr: action install returned an error; continuing.
tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.informatik.hs-fulda.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: gpg unavailable)
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
tlmgr update --self
tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: gpg unavailable)
tlmgr: no self-updates for tlmgr available.
tlmgr install grffile.sty
tlmgr install: package grffile.sty not present in repository.
tlmgr: action install returned an error; continuing.
tlmgr: package repository http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: gpg unavailable)
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
tlmgr path add

So I assume, the update has not been distributed yet to those mirrors? Is there any way to run the Knit function anyway? I am not using any graphics or anything, so I don't really need it.

jrennstich on 10 Nov 2019

This is related to other questions from a few days ago around the web:

https://superuser.com/questions/1500464/unable-to-knit-to-pdf-using-tinytex-missing-sty-file
Maybe be this one too: https://github.com/ho-tex/grffile/issues/1

It seems the grffile is now a legacy package and there was change in how this package is required or not.

It has been removed from pandoc template a week ago https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/4d5fd9e2fe360e47fd5beab724c612ce29aa39ee with an issue to follow how it evolves. see https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5848

@yihui I am not an expert in Latex but I think there may be a change required in tex template in Rmarkdown 📦 to go along with pandoc choices.

Hopes it helps.

cderv on 10 Nov 2019

I just tested on a small example to knitr using pdf_document.

Using the default template it gives the error
Using a custome template removing grffile as pandoc team has done, it renders correctly

r dir.create(tmp_dir <- tempfile()) xfun::write_utf8(c( '---', 'title: "Untitled"', 'output: pdf_document', '---', '', '## R Markdown', '', '```{r pressure, echo=FALSE}', 'plot(pressure)', '```' ), file.path(tmp_dir, "test.Rmd"))

# not working
rmarkdown::render(file.path(tmp_dir, "test.Rmd"),
                  output_options = list(latex_engine = "pdflatex"))
#> processing file: test.Rmd
#> output file: test.knit.md
#> "C:/PROGRA~3/CHOCOL~1/bin/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS test.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output test.tex --template "C:\Users\chris\Documents\R\win-library\3.6\rmarkdown\rmd\latex\default-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/latex-div.lua" --variable "geometry:margin=1in" --variable "compact-title:yes"
#> tlmgr search --file --global "/grffile.sty"
#> Warning in parse_packages(logfile, quiet = c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)): Failed
#> to find a package that contains grffile.sty
#> ! LaTeX Error: File `grffile.sty' not found.
#> 
#> ! Emergency stop.
#> <read *>
#> Error: Failed to compile test.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See test.log for more info.
# not working
rmarkdown::render(file.path(tmp_dir, "test.Rmd"), 
                  output_options = list(latex_engine = "lualatex"))
#> processing file: test.Rmd
#> output file: test.knit.md
#> "C:/PROGRA~3/CHOCOL~1/bin/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS test.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output test.tex --template "C:\Users\chris\Documents\R\win-library\3.6\rmarkdown\rmd\latex\default-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine lualatex --variable graphics=yes --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/latex-div.lua" --variable "geometry:margin=1in" --variable "compact-title:yes"
#> tlmgr search --file --global "/grffile.sty"
#> Warning in parse_packages(logfile, quiet = c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)): Failed
#> to find a package that contains grffile.sty
#> ! LaTeX Error: File `grffile.sty' not found.
#> 
#> ! Emergency stop.
#> <read *>
#> Error: Failed to compile test.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See test.log for more info.
# not working either
rmarkdown::render(file.path(tmp_dir, "test.Rmd"), 
                  output_options = list(latex_engine = "xelatex"))
#> processing file: test.Rmd
#> output file: test.knit.md
#> "C:/PROGRA~3/CHOCOL~1/bin/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS test.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output test.tex --template "C:\Users\chris\Documents\R\win-library\3.6\rmarkdown\rmd\latex\default-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine xelatex --variable graphics=yes --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/latex-div.lua" --variable "geometry:margin=1in" --variable "compact-title:yes"
#> tlmgr search --file --global "/grffile.sty"
#> Warning in parse_packages(logfile, quiet = c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)): Failed
#> to find a package that contains grffile.sty
#> ! LaTeX Error: File `grffile.sty' not found.
#> 
#> ! Emergency stop.
#> <read *>
#> Error: Failed to compile test.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See test.log for more info.
fs::file_delete(fs::dir_ls(tmp_dir, glob = "*.Rmd", invert = TRUE))

# modify template ---

# get template
file.copy(system.file("rmd/latex/default-1.17.0.2.tex", package = "rmarkdown"), to = tmp_dir)
#> [1] TRUE

xfun::gsub_file(file.path(tmp_dir, "default-1.17.0.2.tex"), 
                pattern = "\\usepackage\\{graphicx,grffile\\}",
                replacement = "\\usepackage{graphicx}")
# include new template
rmarkdown::render(file.path(tmp_dir, "test.Rmd"), output_options = list(template = "default-1.17.0.2.tex"))
#> processing file: test.Rmd
#> output file: test.knit.md
#> "C:/PROGRA~3/CHOCOL~1/bin/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS test.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output test.tex --template default-1.17.0.2.tex --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine pdflatex --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:/Users/chris/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/latex-div.lua"
#> 
#> Output created: test.pdf
list.files(tmp_dir)
#> [1] "default-1.17.0.2.tex" "test.pdf"             "test.Rmd"            
#> [4] "test.tex"
unlink(tmp_dir, recursive = TRUE)

xfun::session_info(c("rmarkdown", "tinytex"))
#> R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
#> 
#> Locale:
#>   LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252   
#>   LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
#>   LC_TIME=French_France.1252    
#> 
#> Package version:
#>   base64enc_0.1.3 digest_0.6.22   evaluate_0.14   glue_1.3.1     
#>   graphics_3.6.1  grDevices_3.6.1 highr_0.8       htmltools_0.4.0
#>   jsonlite_1.6    knitr_1.25      magrittr_1.5    markdown_1.1   
#>   methods_3.6.1   mime_0.7        Rcpp_1.0.2      rlang_0.4.1    
#>   rmarkdown_1.16  stats_3.6.1     stringi_1.4.3   stringr_1.4.0  
#>   tinytex_0.16    tools_3.6.1     utils_3.6.1     xfun_0.10      
#>   yaml_2.2.0     
#> 
#> Pandoc version: 2.7.3
tinytex::tlmgr("--version")
#> tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 52585 (2019-10-31 19:26:15 +0100)
tlmgr using installation: C:/Users/chris/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2019

^{Created on 2019-11-10 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

cderv on 10 Nov 2019

👍4

Awesome, many thanks @cderv for the digging deeply into it and the quick fix (you saved my day; dealing with texlive dependencies on CentOS R on high performance VM today has already been frustrating enough ;-))! :100: : can confirm:

# let's skip reprex for now...
> reprex::reprex(input = here::here("hands-on", "2019-11_task-bayesian-data-science", "rePreparing reprex as .R file:, outfile = here::here("hands-on", "2019-11_task-bayesian-dat  * /home/baumanph/local/46_swiss-ssl/hands-on/2019-11_task-bayesian-data-science/reprex-
rendered_reprex.R
Rendering reprex...
Error: callr subprocess failed: cannot change working directory
> # Errors
> rmarkdown::render(
+   here::here("hands-on", "2019-11_task-bayesian-data-science",
+     "2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.Rmd")
+ )


processing file: 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.Rmd
  |  |  |  |............. |  20%
  ordinary text without R code

  |  |.......................... |  40%
label: setup (with options)
List of 1
 $ include: logi FALSE

  |  |....................................... |  60%
  ordinary text without R code

  |  |.................................................... |  80%
label: unnamed-chunk-1
  |  |.................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


output file: 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.knit.md

/home/baumanph/.cabal/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.tex --template /home/baumanph/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.5/rmarkdown/rmd/latex/default-1.17.0.2.tex --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --variable 'geometry:margin=1in' --variable 'compact-title:yes'
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
tlmgr search --file --global '/grffile.sty'
! LaTeX Error: File `grffile.sty' not found.

! Emergency stop.
<read *>

Error: Failed to compile 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.log for more info.
In addition: Warning message:
In parse_packages(logfile, quiet = c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)) :
  Failed to find a package that contains grffile.sty
>
> # to render the document on the VM (enough RAM to load cached obj> ## fixes bug :-)
> rmd_root_dir <- here::here("hands-on", "2019-11_task-bayesian-dat> science")
> file.copy(system.file("rmd/latex/default-1.17.0.2.tex", package = "rmarkdown"),+   to = rmd_root_dir)[1] TRUE
[1] TRUE
>
> xfun::gsub_file(file.path(rmd_root_dir, "default-1.17.0.2.tex"),
+                 pattern = "\\usepackage\\{graphicx,grffile\\}",
+                 replacement = "\\usepackage{graphicx}")
>
> rmarkdown::render(
+   here::here("hands-on", "2019-11_task-bayesian-data-science",
+     "2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.Rmd"),
+   output_options = list(template = "default-1.17.0.2.tex")
+ )


processing file: 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.Rmd
  |  |  |  |............. |  20%
  ordinary text without R code

  |  |.......................... |  40%
label: setup (with options)
List of 1
 $ include: logi FALSE

  |  |....................................... |  60%
  ordinary text without R code

  |  |.................................................... |  80%
label: unnamed-chunk-1
  |  |.................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


output file: 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.knit.md

/home/baumanph/.cabal/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.tex --template default-1.17.0.2.tex --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex

Output created: 2019-11_course-work-bayesian-data-science-baumann.pdf
>
> xfun::session_info(c("rmarkdown", "tinytex"))
R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Locale:
  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  LC_TIME=de_CH.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_MONETARY=de_CH.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_PAPER=de_CH.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
  LC_MEASUREMENT=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

Package version:
  base64enc_0.1.3 digest_0.6.21   evaluate_0.14   glue_1.3.1
  graphics_3.6.0  grDevices_3.6.0 highr_0.8       htmltools_0.3.6
  jsonlite_1.6    knitr_1.23      magrittr_1.5    markdown_1.0
  methods_3.6.0   mime_0.7        Rcpp_1.0.2      rmarkdown_1.13
  stats_3.6.0     stringi_1.4.3   stringr_1.4.0   tinytex_0.16
  tools_3.6.0     utils_3.6.0     xfun_0.8        yaml_2.2.0

Pandoc version: 1.17.2

philipp-baumann on 10 Nov 2019

👍2

Thanks @cderv for this! Is there any way to

Using a custome template removing grffile

for documents that's easy to implement? I am desperate as I need to meet a deadline.

jrennstich on 10 Nov 2019

👍1

Thanks @cderv for explaining what was causing this problem. I solved it using the new pandoc template as you suggested.

@jrennstich you could use the new template use by the pandoc team as @cderv said. You can find it here in the pandoc repo. Just place the template.tex in the same folder as your .Rmd and adapt this to your document :

title: "Your Title"
output:
  pdf_document:
    template: template.tex
---

clementviolet on 10 Nov 2019

👍4

@jrennstich you can follow @clementviolet advice to use pandoc template or just do the trick I did to get the current rmarkdown template and replace the line

# copy the template file locally
file.copy(system.file("rmd/latex/default-1.17.0.2.tex", package = "rmarkdown"),+   to = "fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex")
# replace the line
xfun::gsub_file("fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex", 
                pattern = "\\usepackage\\{graphicx,grffile\\}",
                replacement = "\\usepackage{graphicx}")

then you'll have locally a tex template for pandoc identical with the previous one except this line and you can add with

title: "Your Title"
output:
  pdf_document:
    template: fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex
---

Know that you could also include that in your Rmd file directly and it should work

````r

title: "Your Title"
output:
pdf_document:

template: fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex

```{r latex_template, include = FALSE}

copy the template file locally

if (!file.exists("fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex")) {
file.copy(system.file("rmd/latex/default-1.17.0.2.tex", package = "rmarkdown"), to = "fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex")
# replace the line
xfun::gsub_file("fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex",
pattern = "\usepackage\{graphicx,grffile\}",
replacement = "\usepackage{graphicx}")
}

````

If for any reason you want to avoid the copy you could also read, then gsub and write locally. 
```r
local({
  template <- xfun::read_utf8(system.file("rmd/latex/default-1.17.0.2.tex", package = "rmarkdown"))
  template <- gsub(pattern = "\\usepackage\\{graphicx,grffile\\}",
                   replacement = "\\usepackage{graphicx}",
                   x = template
  )
  xfun::write_utf8(template, "fixed_rmd_latex_template.tex")
})

cderv on 10 Nov 2019

👍5

Dear @clementviolet and @cderv - thanks so much for your support and quick replies! This was v helpful and most welcome!

jrennstich on 11 Nov 2019

Any suggestions for how to make this work with komaletter? Right now I am specifying output as follows in the YAML header:

output: komaletter::komaletter

jrennstich on 11 Nov 2019

I think you need to open an issue there to modify their template. Currently you can’t provide your own to use with komaletter because it in the code itself
https://github.com/rnuske/komaletter/blob/0648c486d0b1c41915aad616b26c094cff794fdd/R/komaletter.R#L99
So if the template include grffile you will encounter the issue.

There maybe another way to solve this issue though because a lot of things will break. Maybe using a older version of latex with a specified version of the grffile package ?
I am not a Linux expert sorry.

cderv on 11 Nov 2019

👍1

Thanks for the report! I just fixed it in rmarkdown. You can install the development version via

remotes::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown')

yihui on 11 Nov 2019

❤6 👍3 🎉2

Thanks for the report! I just fixed it in rmarkdown. You can install the development version via
remotes::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown')

This solved my issue!

leopham95 on 11 Nov 2019

👍3

Thanks for the report! I just fixed it in rmarkdown. You can install the development version via

These changes should not be necessary anymore, there were some problems in the TL packages that are sorted out now. grfffile is now an empty stub that loads graphicx, and nothing else.

@all if these kinds of errors happen, please check also the TeX Live mailing list, there these issues are reported usually faster than anywhere else.

Thanks

Norbert
(from the TeX Live Team)

norbusan on 12 Nov 2019

👍2

Thanks @norbusan!

yihui on 12 Nov 2019

Hi @yihui ! Sorry to bother you again, but I've just updated my R and Rstudio versions, and upon trying to knit am now getting

tlmgr search --file --global "/footnote.sty"

tlmgr.pl: Remote repository is newer than local (2018 < 2019)
Cross release updates are only supported with
  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
Please see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.
! LaTeX Error: File `footnote.sty' not found.

! Emergency stop.
<read *>

Any ideas?

mariadelmarq on 3 Dec 2019

@mariadelmarq I don't know the internals of tinytex, but it seems that you have a TeX Live 2018 installed (via tinytex), and this cannot be directly updated to TeX Live 2019.

Could it be that you have multiple TeX LIve versions installed?

What does

command -v tlmgr

say?

norbusan on 3 Dec 2019

@mariadelmarq Please see #116.

yihui on 3 Dec 2019

👍1

Thanks @norbusan and @yihui , and my apologies for not finding that myself!

mariadelmarq on 3 Dec 2019

@mariadelmarq No worries! I'll see if this can be automated so other users won't need to ask in the future.

yihui on 3 Dec 2019

@yihui a few things: First of all, thanks for your hard work on TinyTeX!!! I think this is a really great project. BTW, did I or Karl ask you to write an TUGboat article about it, we would be very grateful!!

I have no (again) read through the FAQs etc and have some comment, most importantly concerning the Debian/Ubuntu equivs. Why do you use the outdated 2016 version? We provide equivs files at https://tug.org/texlive/debian.html (see heading "Integrating vanilla TeX Live with Debian").

I somehow agree with your evaluation concerning the packaging level (collection versus single packages), but this is a historical issue back then (10 years or so ago) when I packaged TL for Debian the first time, debian-devel rejected the idea to package each TL package into a single TL package. I guess, asking today would give a different answer. And I might do that in the future, but there is a trade-off: we at TL try to keep collection self-supported, that is, if you install a collection and its dependencies, you get all you need to use all the included packages. But for package-to-package dependencies, we don't track them in TeX Live. So that would mean we wouldn't have package-to-package dependencies in Debian either, which is a problem.

Anyway, I might revisit all this in the future ... times permitting.

All the best

Norbert

norbusan on 6 Dec 2019

👍1

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/vlass/latex/grffile.sty I downloaded this file and put that in the same folder.

zy9004 on 11 Dec 2019

@yi and @yi-apr
Hi, i'm dealing with a similar error (in my case, missing "ragged2e.sty" ) What folder should I put these *.sty files in? Or, at least, where should I look for them?

bac3917 on 6 Jan 2020

Hi, I searched this https://github.com/Distrotech/dblatex/blob/master/latex/misc/ragged2e.sty. You may check the raw file and save as .sty (not .txt) file, and then put it in the same folder with you Rmarkdown files.

Hope it helps.

On Jan 6, 2020, at 23:42, Ben <[email protected]notifications@github.com> wrote:

ragged2e.sty

zy9004 on 7 Jan 2020

@bac3917 @yi-apr You can find the LaTeX package name via the R function:

> tinytex::parse_packages(files = "ragged2e.sty")
tlmgr search --file --global '/ragged2e.sty'
[1] "ragged2e"

Then install it via tinytex::tlmgr_install() (if you use R Markdown or call tinytex::latexmk(), missing LaTeX packages should be automatically).

yihui on 13 Jan 2020

👍1

@norbusan Yes, Karl asked me to write an article for TUGboat last year, and it has been published: http://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents40-1.html

I was not aware of the equivs files at https://tug.org/texlive/debian.html. Thanks for the pointer!

I appreciate most of packages that Debian provides, but I still feel the texlive-* packages are quite painful to use. I completely understand why they are packaged that way (as collections). I'd be happy if Debian only provides the base texlive, and allows users to install extra packages without using sudo. I was aware of tlmgr init-usertree since 2013, but it was still not usable in 2017 (more on this at https://yihui.org/tinytex/pain/).

Basically, since TeX Live can be installed to a self-contained folder without the root privilege, I'm happy to install it that way. I hate having to turn to IT for help every time for LaTeX installation issues, which I could have easily solved by myself. Meanwhile, I also hate being locked to a software version provided by the operating system's developers or volunteers (I appreciate their effort, but freedom is more important to me). I tend to user newer versions, but obviously Debian values stability (much) more. Newer (or latest) versions are not necessarily better or worse. It is just my personal preference.

Thanks for your explanation and comments!

yihui on 13 Jan 2020

Hi @yihui
thanks for your reply. How could I forgot your article, of course I read it in the TUGboat ;-) Sorry for that.

Concerning the Debian packages: Yes I understand why you choose this way, fully understandable. Actually, we = TeX Live Team suggest using this method. I just keep the Debian packages because they are necessary, and for most users it is not necessary to have the latest versions of all packages. In addition, those using Debian testing or sid get practically monthly updates, which is quite good a rythm I think. But true, stable is always old.

Concerning the init-usertree - it was always kind of a hack, and it cannot work for packages that install programs (into bin/ARCH), so it should only be used in emergency cases.

Anyway, good luck with your work, I really appreciated, both from the TeX side as well as the R side (I'm a heavy R user, too).

norbusan on 14 Jan 2020

❤1

I have an .Rmd file that I am trying to knit to PDF and am experiencing what seems to be a similar issue to the above:

``{} tlmgr.pl: package repository http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: gpg unavailable) tlmgr.pl install: package already present: mdwtools ! LaTeX Error: Filefootnote.sty' not found.

! Emergency stop.

Error: LaTeX failed to compile C:/Users/tom/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpgPQUDC/preview-1d7c74c3929.dir/skedastic-vignette.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See skedastic-vignette.log for more info.
Execution halted

The compile was working fine until I tried to include a pipe table in the document, as follows:

```{}
| Test | Source | Function | Prior | Statistic |
|------|-------|---------|-------|-----------|
| A | B | C | D | E |
|------|-------|---------|-------|-----------|

I saw that others resolved such issues by downloading the relevant .sty file and saving it in the folder that contains the .Rmd file. I found the footnote.sty in mdwtools package here, and after saving the file in my working directory the PDF did compile, but it has some strange lines in it before the bottom rule. Can anyone explain?

tjfarrar on 14 May 2020

Oops, it seems this was a simple syntax error; I was not supposed to include |------|-------|---------|-------|-----------| at the bottom of the pipe table. So the solution of putting footnote.sty in my working directory did resolve the issue.

tjfarrar on 14 May 2020

Tinytex: Rmarkdown not working: ! LaTeX Error: File `grffile.sty' not found.

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