diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 07d4f195e..67e0de967 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 ^TinyTeX.*\.zip$
 ^\.github$
 ^cran-comments\.md$
+^\.vscode$
diff --git a/.github/workflows/required-latex-pkgs.yaml b/.github/workflows/required-latex-pkgs.yaml
index 1739f1e60..8f8ff1b00 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/required-latex-pkgs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/required-latex-pkgs.yaml
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ on:
     branches: [main]
     paths-ignore:
       - '.github/workflows/build.yaml'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [main]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '.github/workflows/build.yaml'
 
 name: check required LateX packages
 
@@ -41,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
         run: Rscript tools/test-packages.R
 
       - name: Create Pull Request
-        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
         with:
           title: Update the list of LaTeX packages
           body: New results by running `tools/test-packages.R`.
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c9f5559c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "[r]": {
+        "editor.formatOnSave": false,
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/R/latex.R b/R/latex.R
index 621e9f19c..bd019318b 100644
--- a/R/latex.R
+++ b/R/latex.R
@@ -590,6 +590,10 @@ regex_errors = function() {
       # L3 programming layer mismatch (#424)
       '^File: ([^ ]+) \\d{4,}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} .*$'
     ),
+    babel = c(
+      # babel language definition files
+      ".*! Package babel Error: Unknown option [`']([^'`]+)'.*"
+    ),
     style = c(
       # missing .sty or commands
       ".* Loading '([^']+)' aborted!",
@@ -619,6 +623,8 @@ detect_files = function(text) {
     if (p == r$l3backend) return(
       if (length(grep('^! Undefined control sequence', text)) > 0) tail(v, 1)
     )
+    # babel language definition files
+    if (p %in% r$babel) return(paste0(v, '.ldf'))
     # these are some known filenames
     for (i in c('epstopdf', grep('[.]', names(r), value = TRUE))) {
       if (p %in% r[[i]]) return(i)
diff --git a/tests/test-cran/test-latex.R b/tests/test-cran/test-latex.R
index 9bfe3e193..036e91472 100644
--- a/tests/test-cran/test-latex.R
+++ b/tests/test-cran/test-latex.R
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ assert('detect_files() can detect filenames from LaTeX log', {
   (detect_files("! LaTeX Error: File `framed.sty' not found.") %==% 'framed.sty')
   (detect_files("/usr/local/bin/mktexpk: line 123: mf: command not found") %==% 'mf')
   (detect_files("or the language definition file ngerman.ldf was not found") %==% 'ngerman.ldf')
+  (detect_files("! Package babel Error: Unknown option 'english'.") %==% 'english.ldf')
   (detect_files("!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file 8r.enc): cannot open encoding file for reading") %==% '8r.enc')
   (detect_files("! CTeX fontset `fandol' is unavailable in current mode") %==% 'fandol')
   (detect_files('Package widetext error: Install the flushend package which is a part of sttools') %==% 'flushend.sty')