[R] Re: R-0.64.0 for Win9X/WinNT

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Apr 14 21:33:06 CEST 1999


On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Christophe Declercq wrote:

> ----------
> > De : Guido Masarotto <guido at hal.stat.unipd.it>
> > A : r-announce at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Objet : R-0.64.0 for Win9X/WinNT 
> > Date : mardi 13 avril 1999 10:08
> > 
> > 
> > Windows binaries and source at CRAN (binaries/windows/Windows-NT/base) 
> > have been updated to R-0.64.0.
> 
> Thank you very much Guido and Brian!
> 
> On my machine (with MikTeX installed), I use as helpPRINT.bat (building on
> the proposed example):
> 
> @echo off
> pdflatex \nonstopmode\input{%1}
> start %1.pdf
> rm %1.tex %1.aux %1.log
> exit
> 
> to get help pages in Acrobat Reader and it works fine, but only after I put
> the Rd.sty latex package (from CRAN) in the rw0640\bin directory and, in
> the same directory, a Rhelp.cfg file with the command \usepackage{Rd}.

It should include Rd.sty automatically. The problem is that the file

RHOME/doc/manual/Rd.sty

is missing from the binary distribution. If you put it there this should 
work without any files in the bin directory.

Apologies: of course I have never checked the final distribution, and this
works on a source build.  I wondered if anyone would ever use this,
so am actually pleased to find a bug report!

BTW, using PDF format for help files is one of the ideas under debate.
Another is to provide Windows-style help files.

Brian

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