Message-ID: <431C532F.2080102@hhbio.wasser.tu-dresden.de>
Date: 2005-09-05T14:16:15Z
From: Thomas Petzoldt
Subject: TeX distribution on Windows
In-Reply-To: <20050905135941.GB18905@stat.umu.se>
gb at stat.umu.se wrote:
> 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?
MikTeX works very well for us:
- when writing reports using R figures,
- with SWeave and
- in the R package building process.
You can get the web installer from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miktex
Miktex can be used with WinEDT, Emacs, Texniccenter and others as editor.
HTH
Thomas Petzoldt