[R] TeX distribution on Windows

Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo antonio.fabio at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 16:04:23 CEST 2005


With my windows installation, MikTeX works fine, without any problem
in compiling packages documentation.

Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo.

2005/9/5, Göran Broström <gb at stat.umu.se>:
> 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.
> 
> Any comments to that?
> 
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