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R CMD Rd2dvi failed if run from a path with name containing spaces. This affected R CMD check, which called Rd2dvi.
tools::Rd2txt() did not render poorly written Rd files consistently with other renderers.
It computed widths of strings that would be print()ed with escapes incorrectly, for example in the computation of column width for \tabular.