On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Michael Rutter <ma...@psu.edu> wrote: > Doug, > > I am not quite sure is this answers your question, but... > > If you look at the 'build-r-base.sh' script that Vincent Goulet wrote to > build the Ubunutu packages > (https://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/svn/R/cran-ubuntu/build-r-base.sh), the > following was added: > > # Change any ~ in the name of the build directory for a - to avoid a > # bug in texi2dvi. > if [ -d r-base-*~* ] > then > dir=`ls -d r-base-*~*` > mv $dir `echo $dir | sed y/~/-/` > fi > > Our other option was to ask a large man in a nice suit to see if he could > convince Dirk that putting tildes in the titles of his R beta packages was a > bad idea.
Not sure that would work - Dirk can run fast and for long distances. Actually it was tildes in the LaTeX or Sweave sources, not in the directory names, that was the immediate problem for me. > This has been reported, and it claims to have been fixed. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495577 > > Michael > > Douglas Bates wrote: >> >> I am running the beta test version of Ubuntu 9.10, x86_64 on a machine >> and encountered some peculiarities in LaTeX called through >> >> R-devel CMD texi2pdf file.tex >> >> The tilde character in the input, which should produce a non-breaking >> space, is now being rendered as a tilde. Does anyone know where I >> could begin exploring for explanations and/or workarounds? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > -- > Dr. Michael A. Rutter > School of Science > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College > Station Road > Erie, PA 16563 > http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
