On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Don MacQueen wrote: > > At 6:33 PM +0100 6/17/03, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Don MacQueen wrote: > > > >> At 5:45 PM +0200 6/17/03, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > > >> >There is still one issue to consider in this context: source > >> >packages. A really 'plain' Mac OS X can't be used to install source > >> >packages as-is, basically because there are three missing things: > >> >Dev Tools, g77 and latex. The first one is official, so we could > >> >require that (and probably have to). G77 is really just a few files, > >> >so the installer could add it if necessary, but I'm not sure about > >> >latex. Is building packages w/o latex documentation an option? > >> > >> For an OS X user with no unix background, I would think that pdf is > >> the preferred format, and sufficient. > > > >PDF is produced via latex in R. > > I didn't know that. Does it require a full latex installation, or > could one get by with just a subset, perhaps just pdflatex? It's > probably a bad idea to complicate matters that way, though.
pdflatex is just a symbolic link! You do need a pretty full latex installation. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
