R help - Nov 2011 - Rd2pdf error after 2.14 upgrade‏

> The command Rd2pdf was rather useful for opening a package's manual
> when you don't have access to the Internet (by using latex to pdf
> conversion).  However the way the function seems to operate changed at
> version 2.14 of R.  The noted changes listed on CRAN for this function
> are as follows (which doesn't seem like it would affect my usage as
> below):
> 
>     #R CMD Rd2dvi without the --pdf option is now deprecated: only PDF
output will be
>     #supported in future releases (since this allows the use of fonts only 
>     #supported for  PDF), and only R CMD Rd2pdf will be available. 
> 
> The way I used to open a package's pdf manual from latex file was as
> follows:
 
     (path <- find.package('plyr'))
 
     system(paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"),
"R")),"CMD",
           "Rd2pdf",shQuote(path)))
 
> After version 2.14 R the same code now throws up the error:
> 
>     Hmm ... looks like a package
>     Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX ........
>     Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
>     Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext ==
"pdf"), quiet = FALSE,  :
>     pdflatex is not available
>     Error in running tools::texi2dvi
>     Warning message:
>     running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R" CMD
>     Rd2pdf "C:/Users/Rinker/R/win-library/2.14/plyr"' had
status 1
> 
> 
> I'm running this from the R console.  Any idea on what changes would
> be needed to make this code work to generate a pdf from latex?  I also
> just downloaded the new miktex2.9 over 2.8.  Not sure if this
> information is relevant (I believe this is an R problem but don't know
how to diagnosis this from the error).  Usually, I can figure out the error
message
> but not this time.
 
R version 2.14.0 2011-10-31
OS windows 7 		 	   		  
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I have determined this is a MikTex problem and not an R problem.
 
I apoligize for the post.
 
> From: tyler_rinker@hotmail.com
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:38:54 -0500
> Subject: [R] Rd2pdf error after 2.14 upgradeþ
> 
> 
> > The command Rd2pdf was rather useful for opening a package's
manual
> > when you don't have access to the Internet (by using latex to pdf
> > conversion). However the way the function seems to operate changed at
> > version 2.14 of R. The noted changes listed on CRAN for this function
> > are as follows (which doesn't seem like it would affect my usage
as
> > below):
> > 
> > #R CMD Rd2dvi without the --pdf option is now deprecated: only PDF
output will be
> > #supported in future releases (since this allows the use of fonts only
> > #supported for PDF), and only R CMD Rd2pdf will be available. 
> > 
> > The way I used to open a package's pdf manual from latex file was
as
> > follows:
> 
> (path <- find.package('plyr'))
> 
> system(paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"),
"R")),"CMD",
> "Rd2pdf",shQuote(path)))
> 
> > After version 2.14 R the same code now throws up the error:
> > 
> > Hmm ... looks like a package
> > Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX ........
> > Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
> > Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext ==
"pdf"), quiet = FALSE, :
> > pdflatex is not available
> > Error in running tools::texi2dvi
> > Warning message:
> > running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R"
CMD
> > Rd2pdf "C:/Users/Rinker/R/win-library/2.14/plyr"' had
status 1
> > 
> > 
> > I'm running this from the R console. Any idea on what changes
would
> > be needed to make this code work to generate a pdf from latex? I also
> > just downloaded the new miktex2.9 over 2.8. Not sure if this
> > information is relevant (I believe this is an R problem but don't
know how to diagnosis this from the error). Usually, I can figure out the error
message
> > but not this time.
> 
> R version 2.14.0 2011-10-31
> OS windows 7 
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