[Rd] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R version on gifi

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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.

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