Possible Latex problem in R-devel?

What version of perl?

Ack, didn't realize it was this ancient.  Version 5.005_03, which is what
comes with FreeBSD 4.9 apparently.  I did install the /usr/ports version
of perl is 5.8.2, although there seems to be other problems here (which
are most likely related to my system, will track that down before bringing
that issue up - it appears to be a mismatch on my libraries between the
two versions).

    print $latexout &latex_link_trans0($blocks{"name"});
will probably solve it for you.

Yup, this works, thanks.