[R] problem building R packages in windows xp

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 7/24/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Jordi wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am having problems building R packages in Windows xp. I have followed the
> > instructions from Peter E. Rossi in Documentation -> Other, except for the
> 
> Better to follow the accurate official documentation.
> 
> > TeX version (fpTeX), since when I go to the recommended webpage, it is said
> > that fpTeX has been discontinued.
> 
> Only development has been discontinued.  fptex is still available at e.g.
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/
> 
> and other CTAN nodes.

You can't build vignettes with fptex (maybe there
are workarounds) so I think MiKTeX should be the recommended 
option in any case.  I have tried both and deleted fptex off my
drive some time ago once I realized that its problems were even
worse than those of MiKTeX.

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