I came across this program to locate MiKTeX file: http://docs.miktex.org/2.7/sdk/findfile_8cpp-example.html
If the exe of this were included with R then it seems it might provide a reliable way to locate MiKTeX which we don't currently have since AFAIK there is no adequate registry key for MiKTeX. Since its a tiny program it would not substantially affect the R download. (There is also a perl version of the same program there although it relies on certain perl packages which would also have to be present complicating things.) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
