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? -- G??ran Brostr??m tel: +46 90 786 5223 Department of Statistics fax: +46 90 786 6614 Ume?? University http://www.stat.umu.se/~goran.brostrom/ SE-90187 Ume??, Sweden e-mail: gb at stat.umu.se
With my windows installation, MikTeX works fine, without any problem in compiling packages documentation. Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo. 2005/9/5, G??ran Brostr??m <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? > > -- > G??ran Brostr??m tel: +46 90 786 5223 > Department of Statistics fax: +46 90 786 6614 > Ume?? University http://www.stat.umu.se/~goran.brostrom/ > SE-90187 Ume??, Sweden e-mail: gb at stat.umu.se > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
Hi, G??ran Brostr??m wrote:> 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?I've been using MikTeX on Windows for years and have never had any problems. Its "Update Wizard" also has a nice and intuitive user interface. I've never had any problems using it with R. Cheers, Kev -- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang PhD Student Centre for Bioinformation Science Building 27, Room 1004 Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Homepage: http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~wangk/ Ph (W): +61-2-6125-2431 Ph (H): +61-2-6125-7488 Ph (M): +61-40-451-8301
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
Thomas Petzoldt wrote:> > Miktex can be used with WinEDT, Emacs, Texniccenter and others as editor.Slightly off topic, if you want to get MikTeX working with Emacs and ESS, the Claus Dethlefsen has a wonderful web site (in fact, best website on this topic IMHO) http://www.math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/ Cheers, Kev -- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang PhD Student Centre for Bioinformation Science Building 27, Room 1004 Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Homepage: http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~wangk/ Ph (W): +61-2-6125-2431 Ph (H): +61-2-6125-7488 Ph (M): +61-40-451-8301
On 9/5/05, G??ran Brostr??m <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? > > -- > G??ran Brostr??m tel: +46 90 786 5223 > Department of Statistics fax: +46 90 786 6614 > Ume?? University http://www.stat.umu.se/~goran.brostrom/ > SE-90187 Ume??, Sweden e-mail: gb at stat.umu.se > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >As others have commented MiKTeX works with R. Duncan Murdoch's site mentions some ways to circumvent its one limitation. This is automated in the miktex-update.bat file in http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles/ for Windows XP systems. It will locate the current version of R on your system using the registry and then copy the appropriate .fd and .sty files from your R distribution to the appropriate MiKTeX directory. Assuming R and MiKTeX are installed, just issue this command without arguments: miktex-refresh at the Windows console. Using that command, all you have to do is install MiKTeX without any customizations and then run the above command to copy the mentioned files from R to MiKTeX. (If any of the TeX files in the R distribution change then you should rerun the above command after each install of R. If they have not changed you can run it or not, it does not matter.) Also in batchfiles, is the following Windows XP command: Rfind which when issued without arguments will list the location on your system of a number of programs used with R including MiKTeX. It does not actually modify any environment variables or any other aspect of your system.
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:07:21AM +1000, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:> Slightly off topic, if you want to get MikTeX working with Emacs and > ESS, the Claus Dethlefsen has a wonderful web site (in fact, best > website on this topic IMHO) http://www.math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/Thanks for that tips, it looks promising (btw, it should be "www.math.aau.dk"). The consensus (so far) seems to be to stick to MikTeX and skip proTeXt. Thanks for all the input. G??ran
Goran wrote <<< The consensus (so far) seems to be to stick to MikTeX and skip proTeXt. Thanks for all the input.>>>Well, nothing against MikTeX, but ProteXt also works fine with R. Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax)
Goran wrote> <<< > The consensus (so far) seems to be to stick to MikTeX and skip proTeXt. > Thanks for all the input. > >>>Just to clarify, I have never used proTeXt and my comment was based on having used fptex and MiKTeX and the fact that the batchfiles distribution provides specific additional R support for MiKTeX.
On 9/5/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:> Goran wrote > > <<< > > The consensus (so far) seems to be to stick to MikTeX and skip proTeXt. > > Thanks for all the input. > > >>> > > Just to clarify, I have never used proTeXt and my comment was based > on having used fptex and MiKTeX and the fact that the batchfiles distribution > provides specific additional R support for MiKTeX. >One other comment. If anyone is using proTeXt or other TeX distribution and wants to modify miktex-update.bat and Rfind.bat to support proTeXt or other TeX distribution I would be happy to provide a link to it from the batchfiles documentation or even include it in batchfiles, if desired.
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:55:39PM -0400, Peter Flom wrote:> Goran wrote > <<< > The consensus (so far) seems to be to stick to MikTeX and skip proTeXt. > Thanks for all the input. > >>> > > Well, nothing against MikTeX, but ProteXt also works fine with R.I have made some studying; it seems as if proTeXt is nothing but MikTeX together with WinEdt or TeXnicsCenter and ghostscript/ghostview, so the choice is really between WinEdt and (X)Emacs; you get MikTeX in both cases. G??ran
On 9/5/05, G??ran Brostr??m <gb at stat.umu.se> wrote:> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:55:39PM -0400, Peter Flom wrote: > > Goran wrote > > <<< > > The consensus (so far) seems to be to stick to MikTeX and skip proTeXt. > > Thanks for all the input. > > >>> > > > > Well, nothing against MikTeX, but ProteXt also works fine with R. > > I have made some studying; it seems as if proTeXt is nothing but MikTeX > together with WinEdt or TeXnicsCenter and ghostscript/ghostview, so the > choice is really between WinEdt and (X)Emacs; you get MikTeX in both cases.In that case it probably uses the same registry entries in which case the batch utilities I mentioned would likely work with it without any change.
G??ran Brostr??m 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.I use MikTeX, with one or another of the workarounds listed on my page. I've never tried proTeXt; I did a little googling, but I still don't see the point of it exactly. fptex is still available in various repositories, and is likely to keep working for quite a long time: R doesn't demand the latest and greatest innovations from TeX/eTeX. Duncan Murdoch