[R] miktex 2.6 and R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Steven Lacey wrote:

> I am new to Latex and in the process of installing miktex to work with R on
> windows XP professional. From earlier posts, I see that fptex was the
> preferred version, but it is no longer available. Now miktex is preferred.

In what sense is it 'no longer available'?  The URLs given in the
'R Installation and Administration' manual still work and still lead to 
fptex.

> However, there are known issues with finding the style files in version 2.4.
> Fortunately, www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/mikitex.html provides a
> series of workarounds.

That document (misspelled, BTW) is years old.  Are you sure this does not 
just work out of the box?

> My preference is #4, which appears to be the most
> straightforward. However, version 2.4 is no longer available from
> www.miktex.org <http://www.miktex.org/> . Moreover, the file structure
> changed significantly in version 2.5. For instance, the /localtexmf
> directory does not exist after installation of miktex 2.6. I tried adding
> "c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0/share/texmf to miktex 2.6's root path, but it
> returns an error that the path is "not a TDS-compliant root directory". I am
> not sure how to fix this problem. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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