tools::texi2dvi - what happened to it?

Question

I'm familiar with the fact that you can create LaTeX reports directly from R with tools package and texi2dvi function, but I was surprised to see that tools package is missing. It's just not in CRAN repositories. Does anyone know about an adequate replacement for texi2dvi?

Answer 1

The tools package is part of R itself. CRAN has recommended packages, but not the core packages shipped with the sources.

See e.g. here in the sources themselves for the list of included packages.