Re: [Rd] MiKTeX's withdrawal of texi2dvi.exe

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > 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 ... Thank you for the fix. FWIW, texi2dvi.

[Rd] R CMD check --as-cran without qpdf

Today, a package that has an HTML vignette (but no PDF vignette) failed R CMD check --as-cran on a system without qpdf. I think the warning originates here [1], due to a premature check for the existence of qpdf [2]. Setting R_QPDF=true (as in /bin/true) helped, but perhaps it's possible to che

Re: [Rd] A where() functions that does what exists() does but return the environment when object lives?

I'd start looking at getAnywhere(). Best, Uwe On 10.10.2015 01:18, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi, exists("foo", inherits=TRUE) check whether an object named "foo" exists, and get("foo", inherits=TRUE) retrieves it. I'm looking for a similar function to exists() that returns the environment where