[R] Problem with "R CMD Rd2dvi": Rd.sty not found

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is a problem with a recent-ish change to MikTeX to make it use 
non-standard paths: see the notes on Duncan Murdoch's site at

   http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/miktex.html

Fptex is a standard distribution e.g. from TexLive.


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I run into a problem with "R CMD Rd2dvi" command: it gives me "File `Rd.sty'
> not found" error (See the output message on the bottom). I get the same
> error when running "RCMD check". My system is: Windows 2000, R version
> 2.0.1, MiKTeX version 2.4. I do have a Rd.sty file in R_HOME/share/texm
> directory.
>
> I looked through newsgroups for any related discussions and found Arnab
> Mukherji reporting the same problem on Dec 23 2003 (Subject: "[R] Rd.sty not
> found -"). In reply Prof. Brian Ripley suggested the following:
> 	It should be looking in TEXINPUTS, as is the point of the following
> in the check script
> 	$ENV{'TEXINPUTS'} = env_path(&file_path($R::Vars::R_HOME, "share",
> "texmf"), $ENV{'TEXINPUTS'});
> 	So you could try adding to TEXINPUTS yourself, and you should
> certainly check the current setting of the environment variable (unset is
> fine).
> I am not sure if I understand it correctly but I created environmental
> variable TEXINPUTS with path to R_HOME/share/texm. It did not help.
>
> Any other suggestions?
> Should I use some other version of Latex?
> Do I have to configure it in any special way?


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