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Rd and document formatting

5 messages · Mark Strivens, Uwe Ligges, Duncan Murdoch

Mark Strivens
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I am trying to compose some documentation for a package I hope to release 
soon.

However when I do the following:

R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf mypackage.Rd

I get two mainly blank pages prepended to the top of the document - the only 
text on either (at the top of the first page) is as follows:
 hyperindex,colorlinks,pagebackref,linktocpage,plainpages=false,linkcolor=Blue
,citecolor=Blue,urlcolor=Red,pdnull null null

Curiously if you generate the dvi it is fine and if you generate the pdf from 
the dvi using dvipdf it is also fine...

Anyone got any ideas?

System: Linux 2.4.24 SMP i686 GNU/Linux, latex 3.14159-2.1 pdfTex 3.4.5

Thanks  Mark
Duncan Murdoch
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:46:14 -0600, strivens <strivens at bcm.tmc.edu>
wrote :
Looks like some LaTeX package is out of date, and doesn't understand
some of the tex that got generated.  Rd.sty has this:

  \hypersetup{%
    hyperindex,%
    colorlinks,%
    pagebackref,%
    linktocpage,%
    plainpages=false,%
    linkcolor=Blue,%
    citecolor=Blue,%
    urlcolor=Red,%
    pdfstartview=Fit,%
    pdfview={XYZ null null null}%
  }

so I think your system doesn't have the \hypersetup macro defined (or
maybe you're using an out of date Rd.sty or hyperref.sty?)

Duncan Murdoch
Mark Strivens
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Thanks Duncan,

I really know nothing about Latex - however the macro you detailed
below does not exist in the file: /usr/lib/R/share/texmf/Rd.sty

The header of that file reads:

%%% Rd.sty ... Style for printing the R manual
%%%
%%% Modified 1998/01/05 by Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at
%%% Modified 1998/07/07 by Martin Maechler
%%% Modified 1999/11/20 by Brian Ripley
%%% Modified 1999/12/26 by Kurt Hornik

My R version is 1.8.0 - can update the support files (like Rd.sty) 
without doing
a total R upgrade?

Thanks for your help

Mark
Uwe Ligges
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Mark Strivens wrote:
Please, do upgrade! You will also get problems when updating packages.

BTW: You should have told about your completely outdated R version in 
your first question!

Uwe Ligges
Duncan Murdoch
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:48:11 -0600, Mark Strivens
<mstrivens at houston.rr.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I don't know, but my instinct would be to avoid mixing files from
different versions.  What you have is a pretty old version, which had
a pretty long list of bugs that were fixed in 1.8.1.  I'd really
strongly recommend upgrading at least to there, and preferably to
2.0.1.  

Duncan Murdoch