[R] TeX distribution on Windows

[Thomas Petzoldt]

  gb at stat.umu.se wrote:
> I'm looking for a Windows distribution of TeX that works with R,
> after a few years' absence from Windows. On Duncan Murdoch's Rtools
> page fptex is still recommended, but it turns out that fptex is
> "defunct" as of May  2005,
> see
> 
> http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-7.html
> 
> So, what is suggested? TUG (tug.org) recommends something called
> proTeXt, which is said to be "based on MiKTeX", for Windows users.
> Since MikTeX could be used with R, that sounds like a good
> alternative.
> 
> Any comments to that?

MikTeX works very well for us:

- when writing reports using R figures,
- with SWeave and
- in the R package building process.

You can get the web installer from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/miktex

Miktex can be used with WinEDT, Emacs, Texniccenter and others as editor.

HTH

Thomas Petzoldt