On 7/24/05, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Jordi wrote: > > > > > I am having problems building R packages in Windows xp. I have followed the > > instructions from Peter E. Rossi in Documentation -> Other, except for the > > Better to follow the accurate official documentation. > > > TeX version (fpTeX), since when I go to the recommended webpage, it is said > > that fpTeX has been discontinued. > > Only development has been discontinued. fptex is still available at e.g. > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/ > > and other CTAN nodes.
You can't build vignettes with fptex (maybe there are workarounds) so I think MiKTeX should be the recommended option in any case. I have tried both and deleted fptex off my drive some time ago once I realized that its problems were even worse than those of MiKTeX. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > PLEASE do as it asks, including not sending HTML mail. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html