OK, then this is my official request to include blkarray.sty in the
set of available LaTeX style files on the arm64 platform ... (i.e. the
blkarray LaTeX package,
https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/blkarray?lang=en )
This is the list of 'unnecessary' style files that were included in
Kurt Hornik's 2017 e-mail to maintainers. I don't know if there's an
easy way to diff against the set of files that TinyTeX provides ...
a4wide.sty
actuarialangle.sty
actuarialsymbol.sty
algorithm2e.sty
algorithmic.sty
amsmath.sty
amssymb.sty
authblk.sty
blkarray.sty
bm.sty
chicago.sty
enumitem.sty
environ.sty
fancyhdr.sty
fancyheadings.sty
fancyvrb.sty
float.sty
framed.sty
fullpage.sty
geometry.sty
inconsolata.sty
layout.sty
longtable.sty
natbib.sty
nicefrac.sty
placeins.sty
relsize.sty
shadethm.sty
siunitx.sty
srcltx.sty
subfigure.sty
svnkw.sty
svn-multi.sty
tabu.sty
titleps.sty
titlesec.sty
titletoc.sty
trimspaces.sty
upquote.sty
versions.sty
zi4.sty
I don't know if you should try to provide all these, or wait for
tests to fail and fix things one package at a time ...
cheers
Ben Bolker
On 12/3/25 14:33, Simon Urbanek wrote:
Ben,
it is not an oversight in that I'm not aware of any agreed set of optional
packages. I'm also not aware of the discussion you quote from 2017, but if
there is anything that you need that is not in the standard set then all you
need to do is tell me that you require it.
The change is that the most recent builds are now done on VMs that are now
setup fully automatically (=no manual intervention) and use TinyTeX instead of
MacTeX to make maintenance easier - FWIW see
https://github.com/R-macos/vm-scripts-mini-r/blob/master/shared/setup.sh
If you need any packages that are not a part of the standard TinyTeX bundle
then you just need to tell me (or you can ask TinyTeX to include it so it is
available to others as well).
Cheers,
Simon
On 3/12/2025, at 1:10 PM, Ben Bolker <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not a regular reader of r-sig-mac, but have a question about CRAN LaTeX
infrastructure for MacOS.
This may be a question specifically for Simon Urbanek, but thought I'd check
here first in case anyone has insights.
I recently sent a new version of the lme4 package (1.1-38) to CRAN; it passed
all the incoming tests, but I'm now seeing warnings (at
https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_lme4.html) from the
r-release-macos-arm64 and r-oldrel-macos-arm64 (but *not* from the x86_64
platforms):
! LaTeX Error: File `blkarray.sty' not found.
This hasn't happened before. Furthermore, when I go back in the git log for
the package I see:
commit 3140cc0f1b394c6888d7704ee3d5de5f45df2886
Author: Ben Bolker <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Aug 10 10:28:55 2017 -0400
.Rbuildignore blkarray.sty as per CRAN request
In particular, Kurt Hornik sent a mass e-mail in 2017 to many package
maintainers saying:
These [packages] contain copies of standard LaTeX .sty files which should be
excluded from the package (as shipping these copies should not be necessary,
and may even cause trouble in case the local copies become outdated [as just
happened for a recent CRAN submission]).
So my best guess is that this is an oversight/platform glitch on the arm64
platforms ...
Thoughts?
sincerely
Ben Bolker
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