On 3 October 2019 at 21:38, Driver, Charles wrote:
| Since texi2dvi does more advanced checking than my simple
Sys.which('pdflatex') , it sounds like I should rely on an error from that as
cause for the message / prompt.
Right.
The corrolary is that if texi2dvi fails, simply installing tinyte
inytex') ){
install.packages('tinytex')
requireNamespace('tinytex') #can perhaps leave this line out?
tinytex::install_tinytex()
}
}
Cheers,
Charles
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 5:45:20 PM
To: Fo
John,
On 3 October 2019 at 15:26, Fox, John wrote:
| In the original context of this thread, a simple error message indicating
that LaTeX is absent probably would suffice.
Yes, I agree. Hence this earlier comment of mine you choose not to reply to:
| > Anyway, this is going off-topic. It mig
Hi Dirk,
> On Oct 3, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> Hi John,
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> On 3 October 2019 at 13:56, Fox, John wrote:
> | > On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | > On 3 October 2019 at 10:10, Driver, Charles wrote:
> | > | I have a function that outputs / compile
Hi John,
On 3 October 2019 at 13:56, Fox, John wrote:
| > On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 3 October 2019 at 10:10, Driver, Charles wrote:
| > | I have a function that outputs / compiles some latex. To do this I use
Sys.which('pdflatex') and if nothing is found, prom
Dear Dirk,
> On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> Charles,
>
> On 3 October 2019 at 10:10, Driver, Charles wrote:
> | I have a function that outputs / compiles some latex. To do this I use
> Sys.which('pdflatex') and if nothing is found, prompt the user whether to
> ins
Charles,
On 3 October 2019 at 10:10, Driver, Charles wrote:
| I have a function that outputs / compiles some latex. To do this I use
Sys.which('pdflatex') and if nothing is found, prompt the user whether to
install tinytex package. So, normally I understand the use of 'Suggests' in the
packag
Dear Charles
If your package prints a message to the user suggesting how to get a
Latex installation then I do not think you need to do anything else.
After all they could install Latex some other way if they pleased or try
to work out why the installation they thought they had is not working.
I have a function that outputs / compiles some latex. To do this I use
Sys.which('pdflatex') and if nothing is found, prompt the user whether to
install tinytex package. So, normally I understand the use of 'Suggests' in the
package description to be for when there are only certain functions / t
