yihui/tikzDevice — pull request #49 by krlmlr (2014-01-05 13:51:40+00:00)
Title: Loading babel TeX package to avoid printing tilde in references

Surprisingly, this fixes the tilde introduced by texi2pdf for cross references
and "et al.".

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-January/063084.html

Linked from there, especially useful:
http://www2.it.lut.fi/wiki/doku.php/common/latex_hints