[Rd] MikTeX will be assumed in R 2.2.0 in Windows

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Sep 10 03:54:14 CEST 2005


Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Great.  What specifically is the change?

There are a number of changes to make use of the --include-directory 
command line option that Miktex supports.  It needed to be done in 
several places because tex is called from makefiles, Perl and shell scripts.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> On 9/9/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> 
>>I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use
>>MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf.
>>Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages,
>>so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the config
>>files (or set an environment variable).
>>
>>I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test period.
>>
>>A binary build containing the changes should be on CRAN tomorrow or the
>>next day.  Look for revision 35546 or higher.
>>
>>Duncan Murdoch
>>
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