As some of you will be aware, TeXLive 2009 was released last month
having blocked updates on earlier versions since May. This has lead
to a flood of updates of LaTeX packages, as a result of which the
PDF manuals of R 2.10.0 and earlier will no longer build, for two
separate reasons.
For MiKTeX users: at least version 2.8 (the current one) has the same
updates (a week or so later) and has the same issues.
After some workarounds, 2.10.1 RC and R-devel do build their manuals
for me on TL2009 on Linux, MacTeX 2009 (a TL2009 derivative) on Mac OS
X and current MiKTeX 2.8 on Windows.
As far as I can tell, the following CRAN package manuals have been
affected:
distrMod, RCurl, RGtk2, SparseM, VIM, bit, ggplot2, operators,
relations, spam, tensorA
(and only distrMod fatally).
Given the current pace of change (ca 100 updates/week on 'only' 2000
TL packages), more things may pop out of the woodwork.
For the curious and cognescenti:
(i) hyperref is having problems with markup in \section titles, which
'methods' and 'distrMod' had. I've added a warning to the
R-exts
manual.
(ii) there have been intermittent problems with (LaTeX) special
characters in indices. But (hyperref 6.79d)
Full support of makeindex?s encap feature (e.g.
\index{alpha|textbf}). \hyperpage and the formatting command are
cascaded via \hyperindexformat. Internally \index{alpha|textbf} is
transferred to \index{alpha|hyperindexformat{\textbf}}.
\hyperindexformat calls the formatting command in its first argument
with the page range as argument that is put into \hyperpage. The
formatting command may call \hyperpage itself, it will be disabled
automatically to prevent nested \hyperpage commands.
has broken '|' as an index item ('||' was already broken) so I
added
some special-casing (this does look like a bug in hyperref). Also
some uses of '%' (ggplot2, operators, relations).
(iii) some LaTeX style files are no longer in TL2009. e.g.
floatflt.sty (used by packages EffectiveDose, gWidgets, gWidgetsWWW,
monoProc, pmg).
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
I've managed to find a workaround for point (ii) in the Rd processing, so that will make 2.10.1. (In all cases the primary cause was an alias containing |, although in some cases that cascaded to a different LaTeX error.) On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> As some of you will be aware, TeXLive 2009 was released last month having > blocked updates on earlier versions since May. This has lead to a flood of > updates of LaTeX packages, as a result of which the PDF manuals of R 2.10.0 > and earlier will no longer build, for two separate reasons. > > For MiKTeX users: at least version 2.8 (the current one) has the same updates > (a week or so later) and has the same issues. > > After some workarounds, 2.10.1 RC and R-devel do build their manuals for me > on TL2009 on Linux, MacTeX 2009 (a TL2009 derivative) on Mac OS X and current > MiKTeX 2.8 on Windows. > > As far as I can tell, the following CRAN package manuals have been affected: > > distrMod, RCurl, RGtk2, SparseM, VIM, bit, ggplot2, operators, > relations, spam, tensorA > > (and only distrMod fatally). > > Given the current pace of change (ca 100 updates/week on 'only' 2000 TL > packages), more things may pop out of the woodwork. > > For the curious and cognescenti: > > (i) hyperref is having problems with markup in \section titles, which > 'methods' and 'distrMod' had. I've added a warning to the R-exts manual. > > > (ii) there have been intermittent problems with (LaTeX) special characters in > indices. But (hyperref 6.79d) > > Full support of makeindex?s encap feature (e.g. > \index{alpha|textbf}). \hyperpage and the formatting command are > cascaded via \hyperindexformat. Internally \index{alpha|textbf} is > transferred to \index{alpha|hyperindexformat{\textbf}}. > \hyperindexformat calls the formatting command in its first argument > with the page range as argument that is put into \hyperpage. The > formatting command may call \hyperpage itself, it will be disabled > automatically to prevent nested \hyperpage commands. > > has broken '|' as an index item ('||' was already broken) so I added some > special-casing (this does look like a bug in hyperref). Also some uses of > '%' (ggplot2, operators, relations). > > > (iii) some LaTeX style files are no longer in TL2009. e.g. floatflt.sty (used > by packages EffectiveDose, gWidgets, gWidgetsWWW, monoProc, pmg). > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Dear Prof Ripley thanks (once again) for your alert [snip]> As far as I can tell, the following CRAN package manuals have been > affected: > > distrMod, RCurl, RGtk2, SparseM, VIM, bit, ggplot2, operators, > relations, spam, tensorA > > (and only distrMod fatally). > > Given the current pace of change (ca 100 updates/week on 'only' 2000 TL > packages), more things may pop out of the woodwork. > > > For the curious and cognescenti: > > (i) hyperref is having problems with markup in \section titles, which > 'methods' and 'distrMod' had. I've added a warning to the R-exts manual.[snip] A priliminary check gave that we had some instances of markup by \code{<some code>} within \section{<some title>}. We have changed this for '<some code>' now, but still are checking whether there are additional things we have not seen so far. Not an extremely urgent [xmas] wish: Given that TeX is not the only renderer of Rd, and markup in titles would be handy sometimes --- if I recall correctly, in LaTeX there is Heiko Oberdiek's package 'hypbmsec' to resolve such markup problems within titles; so if Rd-\section command could take this up, we could still have markup in section titles; Otoh, given that we were the only ones having fatal problems with markup, this is probably not so important... Anyway, thanks for stirring us up. Peter (maintainer of 'distrMod')