On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Marc Schwartz wrote:
Hi all,
A list of some possible issues:
1. In R 2.11.x, in:
http://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-11-branch/share/texmf/
there are two files, jss.cls and jss.bst (for JSS), which appear to
be new since 2.10.x. These files are not installed when
building/installing R. It would appear that they are not included
in:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-11-branch/share/Makefile.in
The relevant code there is:
@for f in $(srcdir)/texmf/*.sty \
$(srcdir)/texmf/*.fd; do \
$(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} "$(DESTDIR)$(rsharedir)/texmf"; \
done
which would skip over the two jss files.
This issue came up when another useR (on F12) was building the zoo
package with its vignette, which apparently uses jss.cls. Errors
were of course observed. I thought that the error was limited to
Fedora, but this is an issue in the source.
But there are a fair number of packages which need extra LaTeX files
to build their vignettes, and e.g. the CRAN test systems have had to
have these installed for a long time. Certainly zoo has needed them
from before 2.11.0, and many believe that a Open Source package needs
to include copies of such files (see 'Writing R Extensions').
2. On a related issue, the texmf tree appears to be modified in
2.12.x, with the latex and bibtex files being put into separate
folders:
More precisely, it is a TDS-comformant tree now.
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/texmf/
The makefile.in:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/Makefile.in
appears to be modified to handle that split:
@for f in $(srcdir)/texmf/bibtex/bst/*; do \
$(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} "$(DESTDIR)$(rsharedir)/texmf/bibtex/bst"; \
done
@for f in $(srcdir)/texmf/tex/latex/*; do \
$(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} "$(DESTDIR)$(rsharedir)/texmf/tex/latex"; \
done
So there was perhaps an oversight of sorts for 2.11.x in handling
these two JSS related files.
That's a different hand. I don't know if the files were intended to
be installed in 2.11.x: they are in R-devel so eventually packages
depending on R >= 2.12.0 will be able to rely on them.
3. A final note, which is that the NEWS file appears to be missing
from R-Devel tonight:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
I was trying to read it to note any comments relevant to the above.
Correct. You need to look in
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/NEWS.Rd
which says
\item File \file{NEWS} is now generated at installation with a
slightly different format: it will be in UTF-8 on platforms using
UTF-8, and otherwise in ASCII.
\item \file{NEWS} is no longer in the sources, but generated as
part of the installation. The primary source for changes is now
\file{doc/NEWS.Rd}.
A version of the NEWS file will be in the tarballs.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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