[R-sig-Debian] kvoptions.sty

[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:58:16 -0600,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

> Paul,

> On 29 December 2008 at 14:33, Paul Gilbert wrote:
>> Dirk
>> 
>> Thanks, texlive-latex-recommended seems to have fixed the problem.
>> 
>> On your "lastly" below, I had installed r-base-dev to help with other
>> dependencies I had trouble with earlier, and it did install
>> r-base-core (but surprisingly not r-base), but my r-base-core does
>> not depend on texlive-latex-recommended.  I am using Synaptic on
>> Ubuntu, and it shows the r-base-dev version as 2.7.1-2. I assume the
>> problem is that this is old.

> Not, it has nothing to do with 2.7.1 vs 2.8.1.  It is simply that
> r-base-dev is meant to help with building packages -- in other words
> being able to run install.packages() and not to fail immediately.  It
> does not claim to help with any and all features (here: 'R CMD check')
> on all packages.  The tex packages are simply not pulled in.  Use the
> hints from my previous email to search for which package provides
> what.

A useful tool for these purposes is the apt-file package, that provides
the command line program of the same name:

$ apt-file search 'kvoptions.sty'
texlive-latex-recommended: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty


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Seb