There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo 6.1. (The bug has been reported.) Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not setting the environment variable R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes. We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
On 22 February 2016 at 09:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo | 6.1. (The bug has been reported.) Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not | setting the environment variable | | R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation | | will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes. | | We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4. Confirming that there are issues. I had to rebuild 3.2.3 for Debian (as the default JDK switched from OpenJDK 7 to 8) and had it just fail on NEWS.pdf for no clear reason. I was a bit short on time last week because of travel; I should have reported back here. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
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