On 12/01/2015 6:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urba...@r-project.org>
>> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org>
>> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel@r-project.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place 
>> (R-devel)
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for
>>> texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has
>>> installed it in /usr/bin.
>>>
>>
>> No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from texinfo
>> which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since
>> OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from
>>
>> http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
>>
> 
> Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if so, where 
> was it? 

It has been in the NEWS file since Jan 6.  You can see it there, and
would have seen it announced here:

http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/01/06#n2015-01-06

Duncan Murdoch

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