Migrating to R 3.0.0: TikzDevice and gdxrrw

I am an avid user of R. Most of the time, I use R for preparing nice plots and tables for my LaTeX papers. For my plots, I use TikzDevice and for my tables I use xtable. Gams, my modeling software, developed a nice interface for using data from Gams in R and the other way around (see http://support.gams.com/doku.php?id=gdxrrw:interfacing_gams_and_r). When I upgraded from R 2.15 to R 3.0, I had some problems on my windows 8 machine, especially with TikZDevice. I finally managed to get it installed. The necessary trick is described on “The Stata Things” (!!!, http://enoriver.net/index.php/2013/04/12/keeping-knitr-happy-after-upgrading-to-r-3-0-0/ )
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