From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Aug 28 16:10:21 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:10:21 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] [Bioc-devel] Sweave windows style path (was Re: texmf
 error on 7 packages on devel winXP build nodes)
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> Maybe the installer could/should create
>
>       c:\programme\R\R-latest
>
> as a link to the newest installed version?

Not on an OS without links ....

I think having the correct TeX path is the user's responsibility, and 
suggest Sweave stops trying to be helpful.  There is no guarantee that the 
path you find will be a valid TeX string on any OS (there are plenty of 
possible exceptions on a Unix-alike, so it is not a Windows-specific 
problem).

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[Rd] [Bioc-devel] Sweave windows style path (was Re: texmf error on 7 packages on devel winXP build nodes)
Prof Brian Ripley