[Rd] R-intro

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> 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.

That is not how I read it: if I search on CTAN for texinfo.tex I get to

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/CTANcataloguesearch.pl?PreferredCTANSite=ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive&CATSTRING=macros/texinfo

and that has the 2009-01-01.14 version as the 'Latest developers' working 
copy of Texinfo'.  The main texinfo area has the 2008-04-18.10 version.

We'll need to keep an eye on this.

>
> -- J.
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 15:02 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> 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 the one from TexLive 2008.  My MacTeX has
>> 
>> tystie% kpsewhich texinfo.tex
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
>> \def\texinfoversion{2008-04-18.10}
>> 
>> and your log has
>> 
>> (./R-intro.texi (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
>> Loading texinfo [version 2009-01-01.14]:
>> 
>> Note the date ... not in 2008.  This would not be the first time that a 
>> broken texinfo.tex has been released, but I don't see a texinfo release 
>> since 4.13a on 2008-09-22.  Please revert to a released version.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> -- 
>> 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)
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>> 
>
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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)
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