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From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
Mark.Bravington at csiro.au
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:23 AM
To: r-devel at 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
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