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My issue is same as this problem Error: Font ts1-zi4r at 540 not found

In my case, I am running Rstudio server on a remote machine for work. When trying to build the vignette/manual pdf I get this error. Since the Rstuido is not on my machine I am not sure how to run the solution commands on the remote server. When I access the my server using ssh I am in my home folder. How do I install/update the miktex files there. I have miktex in my local system but that does not do anything. Also the solution provided in the other posts are windows specific. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

sutsabs
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  • Not idea with Rstudio servers, but I guess that if the PDF is generated by the server, the local system is irrelevant. As you are using a remote system (maybe linux?) without root privileges, but with access to R, I will try first to install tinytex from R, not miktex. Well, .. really I will use another sans serif font and console myself thinking that nobody will care about, but that is another topic. – Fran May 02 '21 at 09:08

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R Studio Server uses LaTeX and the inconsolata font is missing (not found) in your LaTeX installation. Inconsolata is called: t1-zi4b. To install, you can execute:

tlmgr install inconsolata
updmap-user

why updmap is needed? see here

Rerefence: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34524357/inconsolata-missing-to-build-r-vignette (in @farid-cheraghi answer)

PS 1: another possible is to install the big (huge) texlive-fonts-extra package but you'll get unnecessary fonts and it takes space in your HDD.

PS 2: possibly this error occurs because R Studio uses Inconsolata found and this font was not included in LaTeX as before. Now you should install. Explanation here: https://texblog.net/latex-archive/fonts/inconsolata/

Rogelio Prieto
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  • You should almost always updmap-sys, unless you’ve previously created a user font map, and then you should do both. The problem is that, instead of supplementing the system font map, a user map hides the system map and prevents you from seeing any updates to it. – Davislor Aug 25 '21 at 13:11
  • On a multi-user system, I might need to install 8-bit fonts under my own home directory, and then I have no alternative but to updmap-user and keep it up-to-date. (For example, it’s possible to automatically check whether the user font map is out of date each time I log into Linux/Unix, the same way make does, or even in a project Makefile.) On my own box, though, I normally put all custom packages in TEXMFLOCAL and only run updmap-sys. – Davislor Aug 25 '21 at 13:19