[R] miktex 2.6 and R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 20/05/2007 9:24 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Steven Lacey wrote:
> 
>> I am new to Latex and in the process of installing miktex to work with R on
>> windows XP professional. From earlier posts, I see that fptex was the
>> preferred version, but it is no longer available. Now miktex is preferred.
> 
> In what sense is it 'no longer available'?  The URLs given in the
> 'R Installation and Administration' manual still work and still lead to 
> fptex.
> 
>> However, there are known issues with finding the style files in version 2.4.
>> Fortunately, www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/mikitex.html provides a
>> series of workarounds.
> 
> That document (misspelled, BTW) is years old.

Yes, and I've now added a line to it to point out that it is obsolete.

Duncan Murdoch