Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-27 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi all, I thought it was all over, but when I started my R help (help.start()) to check something, none of the help files in plotrix were available, each displaying an error message that some 2-3 Gb of memory could not be allocated. The same message appeared when I tried to get text help in

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:01:56 +1000 Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2014 09:43:45 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: ... Though, I have to say I don't quite see how you managed to install R without the above package (it is a required dependency on Fedora). ... Hope the above

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/05/14 00:48, Jim Lemon wrote: Hi all, I thought it was all over, but when I started my R help (help.start()) to check something, none of the help files in plotrix were available, each displaying an error message that some 2-3 Gb of memory could not be allocated. The same message appeared

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, As I could not find any way to install pdflatex (it didn't appear on a yum search), I tried a method that claimed to install pdflatex via a package Trying yum provides */pdflatex will yield the package name: texlive-latex-bin-bin. Though, I have to say I don't quite see how you

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
It's not a TeX issue veven, it's a Fedore issue :-)-O pdflatex is standard in all (most) TeX distributions. TeXLive is probably the standard TeX distribution for Linux, it has a Windoze version and a MacTeX version (or rather two, a complete and a basic). I have used both on Linux and the Mac

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-26 Thread Jim Lemon
On Mon, 26 May 2014 09:43:45 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: ... Though, I have to say I don't quite see how you managed to install R without the above package (it is a required dependency on Fedora). ... Hope the above helps! Best wishes, Ranjan Hi Ranjan, As I always install R from source, I

[R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-25 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi all, I realize that this is not an R question, but in attempting to build a new version of a package, I have encountered the error: Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : pdflatex is not available As I could not find any way to install pdflatex (it

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/05/2014, 6:17 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: Hi all, I realize that this is not an R question, but in attempting to build a new version of a package, I have encountered the error: Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : pdflatex is not available As I could

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-25 Thread peter dalgaard
On 25 May 2014, at 12:56 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/05/2014, 6:17 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: Hi all, I realize that this is not an R question, but in attempting to build a new version of a package, I have encountered the error: Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf =

Re: [R] seeking latex peace

2014-05-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/05/2014 12:34, peter dalgaard wrote: On 25 May 2014, at 12:56 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/05/2014, 6:17 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: Hi all, I realize that this is not an R question, but in attempting to build a new version of a package, I have encountered the error: