[Tikzdevice-bugs] [R-Forge] tikzDevice 0.5.1

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Charlie Sharpsteen writes:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
>> Confirmed on my end: if I use 2.11.1, the problem goes away (also for
>> 0.5.1).
>> 
>> Did you already try 2.12.0?
>> 
>> Best
>> -k

> Hi Kurt,

> We built the package with 2.12.0 (r52686) ~1.5 months ago when the
> code for polypath() was developed--- everything worked fine for that
> revision.

> However, I am 95% confidant the errors have to do with some changes to
> Sweave. Our vignette abuses Sweave in creative ways in order to give
> us more control over the output and it appears that R 2.12.0 included
> additions that require us to update how we deal with Sweave.

> So, I'm pretty sure it is not a bug in R 2.12.0 or tikzDevice--- just
> the tikzDevice vignette.  The source package includes a pre-compiled
> vignette as insurance against this situation--- you may want to add
> the `--no-vignettes` flag to the CRAN builds, if possible, until we
> get this sorted.

> A 0.5.2 release will be forthcoming.

> -Charlie

Ok, thanks.

Best
-k