hi there, thanks for the feedback, sorry about the cross-posting, and that makes sense given the nojss option, which I was not aware of.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:16 AM Achim Zeileis <achim.zeil...@uibk.ac.at> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 19:21, Toby Hocking <tdho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi R-core, I was wondering if somebody could please add jsslogo.jpg to > the > >> R sources? (as I reported yesterday in this bug) > >> > >> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17687 > >> > >> R already includes jss.cls which is the document class file for Journal > of > >> Statistical Software. Actually, for the jss.cls file to be useful, it > also > >> requires jsslogo.jpg in order to compile JSS articles without error. > >> > >> This is an issue for me because I am writing a JSS paper that includes > >> figures created using tikzDevice, which I am telling to use the jss > class > >> for computing metrics. On debian/ubuntu the R-src/share/texmf directory > is > >> copied to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/R, so tikzDevice is finding > jss.cls in > >> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/R/tex/latex/jss.cls but it is failing with a > >> 'jsslogo not found' error -- the fix is to also include jsslogo.jpg in > the > >> R sources (in the same directory as jss.cls). > > > > Why don't you just include jsslogo.jpg in your working directory? > > jss.cls is included in the R sources because there are many vignettes > > with the JSS style, but always *without* the logo. The logo should > > only be used for actual JSS publication, so I think that the R sources > > are no place for it. > > Thanks, Iñaki, you are right. The motivation for including jss.cls and > jss.bst in the R sources was to facilitate turning JSS papers into > vignettes (see the FAQ at https://www.jstatsoft.org/pages/view/style) > with > \documentclass[nojss]{jss}. Before jss.cls/bst were shipped along with > base R many packages shipped with their own copy which seemed like a waste > of resources and source of confusion. > > When preparing new papers for submission in JSS you can also use the > "nojss" option, this is also accepted by the journal. > > Hope that helps, > Achim > > P.S.: Toby, if you plan on discussing an such an issue anyway, I would > recommend to wait with the bug report. Cross-posting on different channels > is always a bit of a nuisance. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel