[Rd] Default repositories in WIndows

2017-09-08 Thread Rich Calaway via R-devel
In the NEWS for R 3.1.0, there is this item: The CRANextra repository is no longer a default repository on Windows: all the binary versions of packages from CRAN are now on CRAN, although CRANextra contains packages from Omegahat and elsewhere used by CRAN packages. However, the .onLoad f

Re: [Rd] texi2pdf doesn't find the correct MikTex installation due to erroneous Sys.which()

2017-06-27 Thread Rich Calaway via R-devel
Ah, but I bet you do have that path...try > Sys.which("texify") texify "C:\\PROGRA~2\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin\\texify.exe" > normalizePath(Sys.which("texify")) [1] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\texify.exe" Cheers, Rich Calaway

Re: [Rd] suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users

2017-06-23 Thread Rich Calaway via R-devel
The following patch is not the most elegant, but it restores the Authors when "LC_CTYPE" is set to either "Chinese" or "Arabic": > Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Chinese") [1] "Chinese (Simplified)_China.936" > citation("readr") To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use: (2016). readr: Read Tab