`pdftex` fflush() failed (Bad file descriptor)

[kongdd]

Dear Sir,

Could you give some clue how to solve this issue?
PS: I used the tinytex as the latex engine.

library(tikzDevice)
## Example 1 ###################################
options(tikzDefaultEngine = 'pdftex')
# options(tikzDefaultEngine = 'xetex')
# options(tikzDefaultEngine = 'luatex')

td <- "."
tf <- file.path(td,'example1.tex')

# Minimal plot
tikz(tf,standAlone=TRUE)
plot(1)
dev.off()
#> png 
#>   2

# View the output
tools::texi2dvi(tf,pdf=T)
# system(paste(getOption('pdfviewer'),file.path(td,'example1.pdf')))
# setwd(oldwd)

Error in tools::texi2dvi(tf, pdf = T) : 
  unable to run pdflatex on './example1.tex'
LaTeX errors:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file c:/Users/kong/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map): fflush() failed (Bad file descriptor)
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

^{Created on 2022-07-22 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

[rstub]

Hmm, works for me:

library(tikzDevice)
## Example 1 ###################################
options(tikzDefaultEngine = 'pdftex')
# options(tikzDefaultEngine = 'xetex')
# options(tikzDefaultEngine = 'luatex')

td <- "."
tf <- file.path(td,'example1.tex')

# Minimal plot
tikz(tf,standAlone=TRUE)
plot(1)
dev.off()
#> png 
#>   2

# View the output
tools::texi2dvi(tf,pdf=T)
# system(paste(getOption('pdfviewer'),file.path(td,'example1.pdf')))
# setwd(oldwd)

^{Created on 2022-07-24 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

Session info

sessioninfo::session_info()
#> ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  setting  value                         
#>  version  R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)  
#>  os       Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
#>  system   x86_64, linux-gnu             
#>  ui       X11                           
#>  language en_US:en                      
#>  collate  en_US.UTF-8                   
#>  ctype    en_US.UTF-8                   
#>  tz       Europe/Berlin                 
#>  date     2022-07-24                    
#> 
#> ─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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#>  rmarkdown     2.11     2021-09-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.1.2)
#>  rstudioapi    0.13     2020-11-12 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  sessioninfo   1.1.1    2018-11-05 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#>  stringi       1.5.3    2020-09-09 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
#>  stringr       1.4.0    2019-02-10 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#>  styler        1.6.2    2021-09-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.1.2)
#>  tibble        3.0.6    2021-01-29 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  tikzDevice  * 0.12.3.1 2020-06-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.1)
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#>  yaml          2.2.1    2020-02-01 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> 
#> [1] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
#> [2] /usr/lib/R/site-library
#> [3] /usr/lib/R/library

Are you sure you can process LaTeX documents that do not make use of tikzDevice? Can you please send the output of tikzDevice::tikzTest()?

[alasorous]

Hi, did you resolve this issue? I have the same issue.

The output of tikzDevice::tikzTest() is

tikzDevice::tikzTest()
#> 
#> Active compiler:
#>  C:\Users\AGO~1\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe
#>  pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (TeX Live 2022)
#>  kpathsea version 6.3.4
#> Measuring dimensions of: A
#> Running command: "C:\Users\AGO~1\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe" -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error -output-directory "C:\Users\AGO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp6ZFyCH\tikzDevice1ab059b944cb" "tikzStringWidthCalc.tex"
#> [1] 7.49817

^{Created on 2022-08-05 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

[rstub]

I haven't heard from @kongdd, so not sure if they were able to solve this.

As for your issue:

• Can you supply the output from the example code on your system?
• Can you use tools::texi2dvi(tf,pdf=TRUE) to process a plain .tex file to PDF?

[kongdd]

Thank you @rstub.
Sorry for the later response.
I found it might be the problem of tinytex.

When I change to WSL, everything is fine.

[alasorous]

Thanks for your help. I tried using MiKTeX instead of Tinytex and it worked.

[rstub]

Thanks for the feedback. I might get back to you once I have a better Windows set-up to test this. After all, using TinyTeX should also work out of the box.