R -> texlive -> libpoppler

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Oct 1 15:21:11 UTC 2010


On 10/01/2010 09:17 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> 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 least on f13 the texlive is too out of date (missing biblatex for example).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.

You could provide your own stub rpm the provided it.  Unfortunately, looks 
like R-devel currently requires tetex-latex, that should get fixed.

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