qpdf.exe for compactPDF?

Question

I am trying to check a package that I have built (with vignette) using R CMD check --as-cran [my package] in my windows command prompt. All goes well until I ge

Answer 1

There are a couple of other things to consider on a Windows machine:

If you are running the 32-bit version of R, it is important that you download the 32-bit version of qpdf, which is the version linked from the SourceForge homepage. If you are running a 64-bit installation of R, you will need to do a bit of digging to locate the 64-bit version of qpdf, which is buried a little more deeply (version 7.0 is listed here).

Once you have extracted the zipped qpdf directory to your hard disk, perhaps under C:\Program Files\, added C:\Program Files\qpdf-version_number\bin to your system PATH under the environment variables, and re-launched R, Windows needs to establish that pqdf is safe to run.

Navigate to C:\Program Files\qpdf-version_numer\bin and execute qpdf.exe (by double-clicking). Windows 10 throws up a security warning, as it's an unrecognized executable file. You'll need to use the more options link to find the button to run the program. This done, Windows will recognize the file as safe to run and allow other software, including R, to use it.