On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 15/07/2009 6:00 AM, pa...@idsia.ch wrote:
I am trying to call texi2dvi on a very simple tex-file (see below) and it
fails with a memory access error. I originally tried to call it on another,
meaningful tex file with the same error occuring. I am attaching a
screenshot.
Thank you very much for your help.
I couldn't view your screenshot, but I wonder why you think this is an R bug.
texi2dvi is a separate program, unrelated to R, except that R uses it for
some of the documentation.
(texinfo is designed to process .texi files, not .tex: your file looked like
latex to me, so I'm not surprised texinfo failed, but I'm somehwat surprised
it had a memory access error.)
Maybe, but both implementations of texi2dviI am aware of do handle
most tex dialects. The shell script that is part of the texinfo
distribution says
DESCRIPTION
Run each Texinfo or LaTeX FILE through TeX in turn until all cross-ref-
erences are resolved, building all indices. The directory containing
each FILE is searched for included files. The suffix of FILE is used
to determine its language (LaTeX or Texinfo).
and in MiKTeX texi2dvi is an alias for 'texify'. We exploit this to
build vignettes.
I too did not bother to try to unencode the screenshot, and all the
basic information in a R-bugs report (including the version of R, the
OS and the exact commands used) were missing. Here the OS and hence
implementation of texi2div were crucial data, as was which program had
the 'memory access error' (most likely it was not R itelf)
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