Dear Mark, I use Scientific Word as a Latex front end. I've also installed fptex and use that to build R packages. The two have coexisted on my computers for several years without problems.
I hope this helps, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:23 AM > To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [Rd] TCITex and R > > Several times my packages have fallen foul of the latex check > at the uploading-to-CRAN stage, creating extra work for Kurt > Hornik. I've never bothered trying to get latex working on my > own packages (happy with vanilla help) but am told that > "latex is the closest thing to a syntax checker for Rd files" > and that I should set it up. Now, there is already a latex on > my (Windows XP) system thanks to the program Scientific Word, > which comes with TCITex. However, RCMD etc don't recognize > this latex at the moment. Does anyone have any advice on what > might be needed to make RCMD use SciWord's installation of > TCITex-- paths, environment variables, etc etc? > > Various R docs recommend fptex or MikTex implementations of > latex, but I'm a bit reluctant to put these on, primarily in > case doing so somehow stuffs up the workings of Scientific > Word in a way that I don't know enough to fix. In case it's > not obvious already, I should add that I am blissfully > ignorant about how latex works-- that's one of my reasons for > using Scientific Word. > > Thanks for any advice > > Mark > > Mark Bravington > CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences Marine Laboratory > Castray Esplanade Hobart 7001 TAS > > ph (+61) 3 6232 5118 > fax (+61) 3 6232 5012 > mob (+61) 438 315 623 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
