From jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu  Sat Oct 10 13:52:04 2015
From: jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu (Jeroen Ooms)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:52:04 +0200
Subject: [Rd] MiKTeX's withdrawal of texi2dvi.exe
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On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> It was used to make manuals when building R from sources.  This has been worked around in R-patched/R-devel.  If you need to build an earlier version of R, edit doc/manuals/Makefile.win ...

Thank you for the fix.

FWIW, texi2dvi.exe was actually removed quite a while ago (1 year?). A
copy of an older miktex build of the current miktex branch that still
includes texi2dvi is available
here:http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/mingw-w64 . Perhaps it is worth
archiving this somewhere to be able to re-build older versions of R on
Windows in the future.



[Rd] MiKTeX's withdrawal of texi2dvi.exe
Jeroen Ooms