Have you tried the *current* version of R?
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o Rd conversion to latex did not add a new line before
\end{Section} for the section environments, which caused
problems if the last thing in a section was \preformatted{}
(and potentially elsewhere).
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> There is a small bug in the implementation of \preformatted in R 1.8.0:
> The closing "\end{verbatim}" needs to be followed by a newline, since my
> latex ignores everything following it on the line.
>
>
> In an .Rd file I have:
>
>
> \details{
> This function provides a thin wrapper around the Unix "fork" system
> call, which will create a new process which is an exact copy of the
> [...]
>
> \preformatted{
> {
> pid = fork(slave=NULL)
> if(pid==0) {
> cat("Hi from the child process\n"); exit()
> } else {
> cat("Hi from the parent process\n");
> }
> }
> }
>
> }
>
> which gets translated to
>
> \begin{Details}\relax
> This function provides a thin wrapper around the Unix "fork" system
> call, which will create a new process which is an exact copy of the
> [...]
>
> \begin{verbatim}
> \{
> pid = fork(slave=NULL)
> if(pid==0) \{
> cat("Hi from the child process\bsl{}n"); exit()
> \} else \{
> cat("Hi from the parent process\bsl{}n");
> \}
> \}
> \end{verbatim}\end{Details}
>
>
> When processed by Rd2dvi these warning messages show up in the log:
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (format=latex 2002.7.17) 9 DEC
> 2003 16:11
> [...]
>
> LaTeX Warning: Characters dropped after `\end{verbatim}' on input line 139.
>
> [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
>
> ! LaTeX Error: \begin{list} on input line 73 ended by \end{document}.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type H <return> for immediate help.
> ...
>
> l.437 \end{document}
> [...]
>
> The solution is to simply add an '\n' at the appropriate place in Rdconv.pm:
>
> gsun492: R [61]> diff -u Rdconv.pm.orig Rdconv.pm
> --- Rdconv.pm.orig 2003-12-09 16:32:17.940846000 -0500
> +++ Rdconv.pm 2003-12-09 16:32:32.440931000 -0500
> @@ -2450,7 +2450,7 @@
> my $code = $_[0];
>
> $code = latex_code_trans ($code);
> - $code = "\\begin\{verbatim\}" . $code . "\\end\{verbatim\}";
> + $code = "\\begin\{verbatim\}" . $code . "\\end\{verbatim\}\n";
> $code;
> }
>
> after which everything works fine.
>
> -Greg
>
>
> Gregory R. Warnes, Ph.D.
> Senior Coordinator
> Groton Non-Clinical Statistics
> Pfizer Global Research and Development
> <<Warnes, Gregory R.vcf>>
>
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