R help - Nov 2004 - Rd and document formatting

I am trying to compose some documentation for a package I hope to release 
soon.

However when I do the following:

R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf mypackage.Rd

I get two mainly blank pages prepended to the top of the document - the only 
text on either (at the top of the first page) is as follows:
 hyperindex,colorlinks,pagebackref,linktocpage,plainpages=false,linkcolor=Blue
,citecolor=Blue,urlcolor=Red,pdnull null null

Curiously if you generate the dvi it is fine and if you generate the pdf from 
the dvi using dvipdf it is also fine...

Anyone got any ideas?

System: Linux 2.4.24 SMP i686 GNU/Linux, latex 3.14159-2.1 pdfTex 3.4.5

Thanks  Mark

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:46:14 -0600, strivens <strivens at bcm.tmc.edu>
wrote :
>I am trying to compose some documentation for a package I hope to release 
>soon.
>
>However when I do the following:
>
>R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf mypackage.Rd
>
>I get two mainly blank pages prepended to the top of the document - the only
>text on either (at the top of the first page) is as follows:
>
hyperindex,colorlinks,pagebackref,linktocpage,plainpages=false,linkcolor=Blue
>,citecolor=Blue,urlcolor=Red,pdnull null null
>
>Curiously if you generate the dvi it is fine and if you generate the pdf
from
>the dvi using dvipdf it is also fine...
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
>
>System: Linux 2.4.24 SMP i686 GNU/Linux, latex 3.14159-2.1 pdfTex 3.4.5
Looks like some LaTeX package is out of date, and doesn't understand
some of the tex that got generated.  Rd.sty has this:

  \hypersetup{%
    hyperindex,%
    colorlinks,%
    pagebackref,%
    linktocpage,%
    plainpages=false,%
    linkcolor=Blue,%
    citecolor=Blue,%
    urlcolor=Red,%
    pdfstartview=Fit,%
    pdfview={XYZ null null null}%
  }

so I think your system doesn't have the \hypersetup macro defined (or
maybe you're using an out of date Rd.sty or hyperref.sty?)

Duncan Murdoch