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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:27:03 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at myway.com> wrote :

>Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. <JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI <at> saic.com> writes:
>
>: 
>: Hi,
>: 
>: I run into a problem with "R CMD Rd2dvi" command: it gives me "File `Rd.sty'
>: not found" error (See the output message on the bottom). I get the same
>: error when running "RCMD check". My system is: Windows 2000, R version
>: 2.0.1, MiKTeX version 2.4. I do have a Rd.sty file in R_HOME/share/texm
>: directory.
>: 
 ...

>There is some information on this at:
>
>http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/miktex.html

The information there is slightly out of date:  the last version of
Miktex that I've tried has broken that solution.  I asked the author
about it, and he replied as below.

I think this is pretty poor behaviour on the part of Miktex, but in
other respects I prefer it to fptex.  

For what you're doing, you need to set up your
"$R_HOME/bin/helpprint.bat" file so that it makes use of the TEXINPUTS
environment variable.  You want the pdftex command to have something
like

-include-directory=%TEXINPUTS%

in it and then it will look in the right places for the includes.

Duncan Murdoch


>To: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>Subject: Re: Help with e-tex?
>From: "MiKTeX Support" <support at miktex.org>
>Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:04:15 +0100
>
>Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> Unfortunately, these instructions do not seem to work any more with
>> pdfTeX.  Sometime between these two releases:
>>
>> MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.4.1603 (1.20a-rc4) (MiKTeX 2.4)
>>
>> MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.4.1817 (1.20b) (MiKTeX 2.4)
>>
>> it seems that support for TEXINPUTS was dropped from pdfTeX.
>
>Sorry, I can confirm that TEXINPUTS isn't supported by newer versions of 
>MiKTeX-pdfTeX. No promise that this will be fixed in the 2.4 branch. Sorry!
>
>Kind regards,
>Christian Schenk