Re: [Rd] problems installing rJava with R-2.8.0

2008-11-09 Thread Joris @ VU
Hello Christian, I had the same problem with running install.packages("rJava"), exactly the same error as you. Turned out the solution was changing a 7 into a 6 somewhere ... please allow me to explain :) Of course the first thing I did, and I suppose you did is follow the advice of Simon Urbanek

Re: [Rd] Locating MiKTeX

2008-11-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
MiKTeX automatically downloads additional required packages that your *.tex files use. Something is wrong with your installation if it did not try to do that automatically for you. Although the following should not be necessary, if you do want to download and install additional MiKTeX packages yo

Re: [Rd] Locating MiKTeX

2008-11-09 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Gabor, et al.: Could you also please ensure 'plflatex wrapper.tex' work with whatever MikTeX installation you include, for 'wrapper.tex' mentioned in the "Submissions" instructions for R News? This bombed for me when I tried it recently, because I was missing multiple LaTeX pac

[Rd] Locating MiKTeX

2008-11-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I came across this program to locate MiKTeX file: http://docs.miktex.org/2.7/sdk/findfile_8cpp-example.html If the exe of this were included with R then it seems it might provide a reliable way to locate MiKTeX which we don't currently have since AFAIK there is no adequate registry key for MiKTeX