Ben, thanks for the list! From those the following are missing from the standard TinyTex:
== actuarialangle.sty == actuarialsymbol.sty == algorithm2e.sty == blkarray.sty == chicago.sty == relsize.sty == shadethm.sty == svnkw.sty == svn-multi.sty == versions.sty So I'll set that they are included one way or another. Thanks, Simon > On 4/12/2025, at 9:05 AM, Ben Bolker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>> > > -- > Dr. Benjamin Bolker > Professor, Mathematics & Statistics and Biology, McMaster University > Associate chair (graduate), Mathematics & Statistics > Director, School of Computational Science and Engineering > * E-mail is sent at my convenience; I don't expect replies outside of working > hours. > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
