Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
I noticed a shQuote fix for Windows in the svn logs.
Just wanted to point out that this will favorably affect texi2dvi on Windows which previously used
UNIX quoting and so generated an incorrect Windows
command. (Note that texi2dvi is used when creating
vignettes.)
Another problem is that the recommended tex distribution for Windows, fptex, does not have texi2dvi in the first place. The alternative, MiKTeX, is harder to install
I heared some people think so, but apparently it is not a big problem.
> than fptex but instructions are available
and it does have an equivalent to texi2dvi called texify.exe;
however, R still does not know about texify.exe resulting in additional installation hassles,
viz. setting the texi2dvi option or setting up a texi2dvi.bat
file yourself that calls texify.exe or just forgetting
about texi2dvi and manually running the necessary tex commands
when creating vignettes on Windows.
texi2dvi is also available in MikTeX, see package miktex-texinfo-bin.
See also ?texi2dvi in R to see how you can set something different, e.g. "texify", which is explicitly given in the examples.
There are also additional problems related to using the perl package-building scripts in Windows. I can create the zoo vignette using:
setwd("...whatever...") Sweave("zoo.Rnw") texi2dvi("zoo.tex")
provided I modify the source to texi2dvi to use the appropriate quoting but even with that modification, the perl package build scripts only build the vignette as far as the zoo.tex file and I must do the rest by hand so there is some problem with the scripts or in how they interact with R.
Are you going to provide a patch?
Uwe Ligges
I think the real ultimate solution is to replace the perl scripts with R code to make them more maintainable. This seems like the direction things are moving anyways and I suspect that they were developed long before R got to its current advanced state where R is just as powerful as perl.
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