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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We have now tracked down what \middle was used for, and it was last needed 
4 years ago.  So it can be removed, and has been in R-devel.


On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> > [mailto:r-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Na Li
> > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:21 PM
> > To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [Rd] \middle in Rd.sty conflicts with newer LaTeX?
> > 
> > 
> > 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 
> 
> See Duncan Murdoch's "Using MiKTeX with R for Windows" at
> 
>   http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/miktex.html 
> 
> and it tells you how. If you can't get e-tex compatibility mode to work,
> just go for "plain" tex, latex, and pdftex; it works for me with MikTeX v2.4
> and R v1.9.0.
> 
> > \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.
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
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> Henrik Bengtsson
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