On 10/01/2010 10:54 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 10/01/2010 06:40 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
Is there any way to decouple the bulk of R from requiring texlive [1]? It seems bizarre that a stats package has a deep coupling with a typesetting language .. ;-)
is there any way to make an R-reports or R-docs package to at least isolate this coupling ?
[1] Some of us are using different tex than the fedora texlive (at least on f13 the texlive is too out of date (missing biblatex for example).
R uses latex for documentation. Not sure if there is a sensible split that would make it optional. It should be able to require tex(latex) I believe for generic latex support.
CC'ing R-owner (spot).
Unfortunately I install texive from upstream and there is no rpm ... via tlmgr.