[Rd] \middle in Rd.sty conflicts with newer LaTeX?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Na Li wrote:

> On 1 Jul 2004, Brian Ripley uttered the following:
> 
> > The conflict is with e-tex.  Please use latex, not e-latex.
> > 
> > This comes up on MikTeX (Windows) too.  We'll try to work around this
> > for the next release.
> 
> Thanks.  However I couldn't figure out how to have etex run in
> compatibility mode with GWTeX.  For now I just changed \middle -> \Rmiddle
> in Rd.sty and everything seems to be working.  I did some poking around
> and did not find \middle is used anywhere except in Rd.sty.

Yes, we know, but we have not yet clarified that it is not actually used 
*any*where by any user of Rd.sty.

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