MiKTeX has abruptly removed texi2dvi.exe from its distribution. (MiKTeX
broke its updating process earlier and an attempted update trashed the
updater on my installation so I was forced to make a fresh install of
the current distribution. I do not know if updates remove a currently
installed texi2dvi.exe.)
This has two consequences:
1) It is used by tools::texi2dvi() if found. As far as I can tell
texify.exe is a sufficient replacement there, so you can set
options(texi2dvi = "texify") (and R-patched/R-devel have been changed to
try that). Otherwise emulation will be used and does work, less robustly.
2) It was used to make manuals when building R from sources. This has
been worked around in R-patched/R-devel. If you need to build an
earlier version of R, edit doc/manuals/Makefile.win from
ifeq "$(MIKTEX)" "TRUE"
R_TEXOPTS = --include-directory=../../share/texmf/tex/latex
TEXI2DVI = texi2dvi
else
R_TEXOPTS =
TEXI2DVI =
endif
setting the first TEXI2DVI line to
TEXI2DVI = TEXINDEX=/Rtools/bin/texindex.exe texify
altering the full path to texindex.exe as required (being on the PATH is
not sufficient). (For current versions, set this in MkRules.local.)
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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