[R] Problem with "R CMD Rd2dvi": Rd.sty not found

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

: 
: This is a problem with a recent-ish change to MikTeX to make it use 
: non-standard paths: see the notes on Duncan Murdoch's site at
: 
:    http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/miktex.html
: 
: Fptex is a standard distribution e.g. from TexLive.

I initially started with MikTeX but then had the texinput problem
while trying to generate vignettes for a package so
tried fptex but found that the latter was huge (the .bat file
downloads about half a gig of files) and Miktex seems more polished.  
The most important shortcoming is that fptex lacks texi2dvi and while
Miktex lacks this too it has a substitute, texify.exe, which can
be used instead whereas fptex does not.  The Miktex developer told
me that the underlying tex engine he is using is missing the texinput
part and as soon as that is corrected he will incorporate it
into miktex.  This was quite a while ago and the situation 
may have changed somewhat.  I think some people have had good expeiences
with fptex but they probably were not trying to develop packages with
vignettes and certain other tasks that involve texinput.  I think had 
I known all this I just would have stuck to miktex and done the extra
configuration and saved myself having to download the huge fptex 
distribution.