From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu  Mon Jan  5 00:24:55 2009
From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:24:55 -0800
Subject: [Rd] R-intro
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Thanks. Works with a previous version of texinfo.tex from Time Machine.

If you run tlmgr you'll see that CTAN now has the (broken) 2009-01-01
version, released by the FSF in 2009.

-- J.

On Jan 4, 2009, at 15:02 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> See below. It hangs after typesetting p 21, so I gave a ^C. It's the
>> current R-devel from svn, OS X 10.5.6, and the current TeXLive-2008
>> from svn (i.e. from tlmgr).
>
> The problem seems to be the version of texinfo.tex, which does not  
> seem to be the one from TexLive 2008.  My MacTeX has
>
> tystie% kpsewhich texinfo.tex
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> \def\texinfoversion{2008-04-18.10}
>
> and your log has
>
> (./R-intro.texi (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/ 
> texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 2009-01-01.14]:
>
> Note the date ... not in 2008.  This would not be the first time  
> that a broken texinfo.tex has been released, but I don't see a  
> texinfo release since 4.13a on 2008-09-22.  Please revert to a  
> released version.
>
> Brian
>
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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[Rd] R-intro
Jan de Leeuw