Dear Spencer, I assume you are using R **3**.6.2.
Consider TinyTeX (https://yihui.org/tinytex/). I found that working fairly easy on Windows machines, even by users without admin privileges. Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <https://www.inbo.be> Op ma 24 feb. 2020 om 18:00 schreef Spencer Graves < spencer.gra...@effectivedefense.org>: > Hello, All: Two related questions: > > > SHORT QUESTION: Which version of LaTeX does the R Project prefer and > why? I'm having trouble with MiKTeX, and one source suggested I switch > to TeX Live. (e.g., "https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29034";) > > > PRESENTING PROBLEM: > > > "R CMD build sos" under Windows 7 on a clone from > "https://github.com/sbgraves237/sos"; ended with, 'The required file > tex\latex\pgf\frontendlayer\tikz.sty" is missing.' I clicked "Install" > and got "MiKTeX Update Wizard: The operation could not be completed for > the following reason: No data. Details: get host by name failed in > tcp_connect()". > > > I get the same error when I try to run MiKTeX 2.9 Update and > "Update (Admin)". (I got the "tikz.sty is missing" message only after I > had turned off everything I could find to turn off in "Bitdefender Total > Security".) I think I saw a suggestion to manually delete "C:Program > Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9" and manually remove the reference from the path, > then reinstall into a different directory that the operating system and > anti-virus would not by default identify as part of the operating system. > > > Suggestions? > Thanks, > Spencer Graves > > > p.s. This is using R 2.6.2 immediately after running "update.packages()". > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
