On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:55:26PM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Göran Broström wrote: > >I'm looking for a Windows distribution of TeX that works with R, after a > >few years' absence from Windows. On Duncan Murdoch's Rtools page fptex is > >still recommended, but it turns out that fptex is "defunct" as of May 2005, > >see > > > >http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-7.html > > > >So, what is suggested? TUG (tug.org) recommends something called proTeXt, > >which is said to be "based on MiKTeX", for Windows users. Since MikTeX > >could be used with R, that sounds like a good alternative. > > I use MikTeX, with one or another of the workarounds listed on my page. > I've never tried proTeXt; I did a little googling, but I still don't > see the point of it exactly.
It's just MiKTeX with a few extras, like WinEdt, ghostscript, etc. As far as I understand, MikTeX itself is untouched. > > fptex is still available in various repositories, and is likely to keep > working for quite a long time: R doesn't demand the latest and greatest > innovations from TeX/eTeX. Right. But maybe you should change the broken link to www.fptex.org. Göran ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html