On 8/11/2006 8:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As you may already know, the MiKTeX distribution just went through a major > upgade: from 2.4 to 2.5 with some major changes in the configuration files > and directory structure. SInce I routinely build new versions of R-patched > and R-dvel from tarballs (this includes PDF documentation) I wnated to > check how the new version will work. I am happy to report that things went > pretty smoothly. Here is a short synopsis fo what I did:
Thanks for the report. I haven't upgraded to 2.5 yet, and am heading out on vacation for a week or two, so won't likely try it until late in the month. > > 1. First of all I am on Win2000 system with all recent security patches > applied (my company takes care of that). > 2. I tried to update my old version of MiKTeX using the new Update Wizard > which poped up by itself after a routine MiKTeX update. This did not go > over too well. The upgrade crashed in the middle complaining something > about not being able to replace files in use. I ended up with unusable > MiKTeX. > 3. I uninstalled MiKTeX and downloaded the "basic" installer from a > mirror. I ran the installer making sure that I used the same path as the > old installation. This probably is not necessary, but then one might need > to change the PATH environmental variable. The install ran with no > problem. > 4. I downloaded a fresh tarball of R-dvel and ran "make distribution >& > zzz &" in the command (cygwin) window. The compilation ran up to a point > when it started making PDF documentation. Then a window popped up asking > me if I wanted to download a missing *.sty file (I do nor remember which > one). I clicked on the Install button and after a short while the make > process picked up the compilation. This happened one more time and the > whole process finished with no further problems. > 5. I did some spot checks of the *.pdf manuals and they seem to be fine. > Also, I inspected the zzz file for error messages and there were none, so > it looks like things worked OK. > 6. The basic MiKTeX installation apparently has an "on the fly" > installation of missing packages feature that seems to work. I think > someplace on the MiKTeX site I saw something to that effect. > 7. With the old version of MiKTeX I had to copy the files from the > share/texmf directory to MiKTeX's localtexmf/tex/latex. This does not seem > to be necessary anymore. In fact the localtexmf does not exist in the new > MiKTeX. This may or may not be a MiKTeX change. As of release 2.2.0, MikTeX has been working with R builds (though Rcmd Rd2dvi had a lingering bug until a post 2.3.1 patch). It's possible they've reinstated the standard method of specifying TEXINPUTS through environment variables, and then it would work with older R builds, or maybe you just never noticed the 2.2.0 change ;). Duncan Murdoch > > Hope this helps, > > Andy > > __________________________________ > Andy Jaworski > 518-1-01 > Process Laboratory > 3M Corporate Research Laboratory > ----- > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (651) 733-6092 > Fax: (651) 736-3122 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
