On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Paul Gilbert wrote:
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From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: April 19, 2010 11:20 AM
To: Paul Gilbert
Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] utf8.def
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Paul Gilbert wrote:
I am trying to check my packages with R-rc
And what is that? Please do note what the posting guide says about
giving accurate version information.
R version 2.11.0 RC (2010-04-18 r51771)
and latex is failing to find utf8.def. I presume my latex
installation is defective or too old, or is this file distributed
with R and I just don't have a path set correctly?
It is part of the required version of LaTeX. From the NEWS file for
2.11.0:
o UTF-8 is now used for the reference manual and package
manuals. This requires LaTeX '2005/12/01' or later.
I'm a bit confused about the version numbering scheme for latex.
latex --version reports
TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159
kpathsea version 3.4.5
Is that LaTeX '2005/12/01' or later?
LaTeX is not tex, and 'latex' is a link to 'tex' usually.
To get the LaTeX version, look further. E.g a LaTeX log might say
**refman.tex
(./refman.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
(which is the current one, according to the TeXLive 2009 updater).
Does it make sense that R is building ok, and apparently using utf8.def
according to the NEWS extract, but my packages don't find it?
Well, did you build the reference manual? It is not part of the
default build (e.g. 'make pdf' is needed).
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