Re: [Rd] R-intro

2009-01-04 Thread Jan de Leeuw
Thanks. Works with a previous version of texinfo.tex from Time Machine. If you run tlmgr you'll see that CTAN now has the (broken) 2009-01-01 version, released by the FSF in 2009. -- J. On Jan 4, 2009, at 15:02 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote: Brian, See b

Re: [Rd] R-intro

2009-01-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote: Brian, See below. It hangs after typesetting p 21, so I gave a ^C. It's the current R-devel from svn, OS X 10.5.6, and the current TeXLive-2008 from svn (i.e. from tlmgr). The problem seems to be the version of texinfo.tex, which does not seem to be th

Re: [Rd] R-intro

2009-01-04 Thread Jan de Leeuw
Brian, See below. It hangs after typesetting p 21, so I gave a ^C. It's the current R-devel from svn, OS X 10.5.6, and the current TeXLive-2008 from svn (i.e. from tlmgr). -- Jan On Jan 4, 2009, at 14:11 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Jan, I am not seeing this (on OS X or anywhere else).

Re: [Rd] R-intro

2009-01-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Jan, I am not seeing this (on OS X or anywhere else). Can you plese give more detais? On Mac OS I am using MacTeX, on Windows MiKTeX and on Linux TeXLixe 2007. On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote: Currently the pdf/dvi versions of R-intro do not build, the tex compilation hangs on page

[Rd] R-intro

2009-01-04 Thread Jan de Leeuw
Currently the pdf/dvi versions of R-intro do not build, the tex compilation hangs on page 21 (standard TeXLive, OS X). === Jan de Leeuw, 11667 Steinhoff Rd, Frazier Park, CA 93225 home 661-245-1725 mobile 661-231-5416 work 310-

[Rd] proposed patch to Uniform.Rd

2009-01-04 Thread Ben Bolker
In the wake of discussions about documentation of R's random number generation (and whether there should be links to .Random.seed in other places), here is a proposed patch to Uniform.Rd from 2.8.1. (Watch out for line breaks.) [R-core may choose not to accept this, but at least it's easy if th

Re: [Rd] Bug report in foreign library (PR#13425)

2009-01-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Nicholas Horton wrote: Peter, I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully. Yes 0.8-30 is an update on the Mac OS X distribution. It was deliberately put out after 2.8.1 as we knew that some o

Re: [Rd] Bug report in foreign library (PR#13425)

2009-01-04 Thread Nicholas Horton
Peter, I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully. All the best, Nick On 1/3/09 6:46 PM, "Peter Dalgaard" wrote: > nhor...@email.smith.edu wrote: >> here appears to be a bug in the foreign library. The followin