R -> texlive -> libpoppler

[Genes MailLists]

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 least on f13 the texlive is too out of date (missing biblatex for example).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.