R devel - Sep 2005 - MikTeX will be assumed in R 2.2.0 in Windows

I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use 
MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf. 
Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages, 
so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the config
files (or set an environment variable).

I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test period.

A binary build containing the changes should be on CRAN tomorrow or the 
next day.  Look for revision 35546 or higher.

Duncan Murdoch

Great.  What specifically is the change?

On 9/9/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
> I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use
> MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf.
> Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages,
> so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the
config
> files (or set an environment variable).
> 
> I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test
period.
> 
> A binary build containing the changes should be on CRAN tomorrow or the
> next day.  Look for revision 35546 or higher.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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On 9/9/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
> I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use
> MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf.
> Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages,
> so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the
config
> files (or set an environment variable).
> 
> I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test
period.
> 
> A binary build containing the changes should be on CRAN tomorrow or the
> next day.  Look for revision 35546 or higher.
Note that R.version.string in R 2.2.0 2005-09-03 does not give
this sort of version information.  If we are going to use this style
I suggest we modify R.version.string accordingly.

On 9/9/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
> I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use
> MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf.
> Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages,
> so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the
config
> files (or set an environment variable).
> 
> I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test
period.
> 
> A binary build containing the changes should be on CRAN tomorrow or the
> next day.  Look for revision 35546 or higher.
The above improvement was one of the key things one had to look out
for in installing R that was not already covered in the R setup procedure.

The other one is to copy the libraries from your old R version to your
new one (unless you want to share libraries among versions).  I have
a batch file in the devel version of batchfiles to do that but if this were
made part of the installation procedure I could eliminate it or if it
were included it would be much less necessary.

We've made some further changes that enable the scripts to figure out if 
MiKTeX or some more standard latex is being used, so hopefully it should 
work for everyone out-of-the-box.

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use
> MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf.
> Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages,
> so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the
config
> files (or set an environment variable).
>
> I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test
period.
Again, please let us know of any problems.  I have tested both MiKTeX and 
fptex, but on a machine that had both installed.

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