[Rd] Recent TeX changes and R/package manuals

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I've managed to find a workaround for point (ii) in the Rd processing, 
so that will make 2.10.1.  (In all cases the primary cause was an 
alias containing |, although in some cases that cascaded to a 
different LaTeX error.)

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> As some of you will be aware, TeXLive 2009 was released last month having 
> blocked updates on earlier versions since May.  This has lead to a flood of 
> updates of LaTeX packages, as a result of which the PDF manuals of R 2.10.0 
> and earlier will no longer build, for two separate reasons.
>
> For MiKTeX users: at least version 2.8 (the current one) has the same updates 
> (a week or so later) and has the same issues.
>
> After some workarounds, 2.10.1 RC and R-devel do build their manuals for me 
> on TL2009 on Linux, MacTeX 2009 (a TL2009 derivative) on Mac OS X and current 
> MiKTeX 2.8 on Windows.
>
> As far as I can tell, the following CRAN package manuals have been affected:
>
>  distrMod, RCurl, RGtk2, SparseM, VIM, bit, ggplot2, operators,
>  relations, spam, tensorA
>
> (and only distrMod fatally).
>
> Given the current pace of change (ca 100 updates/week on 'only' 2000 TL 
> packages), more things may pop out of the woodwork.
>
> For the curious and cognescenti:
>
> (i) hyperref is having problems with markup in \section titles, which 
> 'methods' and 'distrMod' had.  I've added a warning to the R-exts manual.
>
>
> (ii) there have been intermittent problems with (LaTeX) special characters in 
> indices.  But (hyperref 6.79d)
>
>  Full support of makeindex’s encap feature (e.g.
>  \index{alpha|textbf}). \hyperpage and the formatting command are
>  cascaded via \hyperindexformat. Internally \index{alpha|textbf} is
>  transferred to \index{alpha|hyperindexformat{\textbf}}.
>  \hyperindexformat calls the formatting command in its first argument
>  with the page range as argument that is put into \hyperpage. The
>  formatting command may call \hyperpage itself, it will be disabled
>  automatically to prevent nested \hyperpage commands.
>
> has broken '|' as an index item ('||' was already broken) so I added some 
> special-casing (this does look like a bug in hyperref).  Also some uses of 
> '%' (ggplot2, operators, relations).
>
>
> (iii) some LaTeX style files are no longer in TL2009. e.g. floatflt.sty (used 
> by packages EffectiveDose, gWidgets, gWidgetsWWW, monoProc, pmg).
>
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595