[Rd] Copying libraries from one version of R to another (was Re: MikTeX will be assumed in R 2.2.0 in Windows)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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.

The above improvement was one of the key things one had to look out
for in installing R that was not already covered in the R setup procedure.

The other one is to copy the libraries from your old R version to your
new one (unless you want to share libraries among versions).  I have
a batch file in the devel version of batchfiles to do that but if this were
made part of the installation procedure I could eliminate it or if it
were included it would be much less necessary.