As a developper, I would like to have a message if some latex distribution is required

[ymansiaux]

Reprex

1. clone the "branch" seb_yohann" from the "kata1" repository gert::git_clone(url = "............./kata1.git", branch = "seb_yohann")

2. run devtools::check()

3. run checkhelper::print_globals()

Context

tests have been performed on bakadev admin

sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8   
 [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] checkhelper_0.0.1.9000 devtools_2.4.3         usethis_2.1.6          testthat_3.1.4         stringr_1.4.0          dplyr_1.0.9           

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] pillar_1.7.0      compiler_4.2.0    remotes_2.4.2     prettyunits_1.1.1 tools_4.2.0       digest_0.6.29     pkgbuild_1.3.1    pkgload_1.2.4    
 [9] evaluate_0.15     memoise_2.0.1     lifecycle_1.0.1   tibble_3.1.7      pkgconfig_2.0.3   rlang_1.0.2       rex_1.2.1         rstudioapi_0.13  
[17] DBI_1.1.3         cli_3.3.0         yaml_2.3.5        curl_4.3.2        xfun_0.31         xopen_1.0.0       fastmap_1.1.0     knitr_1.39       
[25] withr_2.5.0       generics_0.1.2    desc_1.4.1        vctrs_0.4.1       fs_1.5.2          rprojroot_2.0.3   tidyselect_1.1.2  packacode_1.0.4  
[33] glue_1.6.2        R6_2.5.1          processx_3.6.1    fansi_1.0.3       rcmdcheck_1.4.0   rmarkdown_2.14    sessioninfo_1.2.2 covr_3.5.1       
[41] purrr_0.3.4       callr_3.7.0       magrittr_2.0.3    htmltools_0.5.2   ps_1.7.1          ellipsis_0.3.2    assertthat_0.2.1  utf8_1.2.2       
[49] stringi_1.7.6     lazyeval_0.2.2    cachem_1.0.6      crayon_1.5.1      brio_1.1.3       

[ArthurData]

Yohann said:

Pour info, après avoir installé Miktek sur mon poste, j'ai pu lancer print_globals() et là pas d'erreur.

[statnmap]

So the problem was your installation and not the package I guess.
Can I close this issue ?

[ymansiaux]

I guess the problem was related to the absence of miktek on my computer.

It might be good to add a message in the README telling the user (as a developper) that some latex distribution is required ?

[ArthurData]

Thx @ymansiaux , i change the content of this issue