[R-sig-Fedora] Installing texlive dependencies

Peter Baker baker.peter2009 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 08:15:14 CEST 2012 

Hi Petar

My guess is that you had something else floating around from previous
fedora update/install which caused some mismatches as some binaries
have been put into texlive that previously weren't in texlive 2007 -
five years (2007 to 2012) is quite a time in computing so sadly you'd
expect things to change. I have not used texlive 2007 for quite some
time (perhaps f13) and not really had much of a problem with R once I
got rid of remnants of texlive 2007. I find texlive 2011/12 to be much
easier to update once you get it working. Linux mint is still at
texlive 2009 and that seems to work perfectly fine too

Of course it doesn't really matter as tex seems to change at a glacial
pace compared to R - I am glad it is now working for you.

Cheers
Peter

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Petar Milin <pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs> wrote:
> Hello!
> Finally [ and contrary to Peter :-) ], I have installed TeXLive 2007
> from the main repo. My experience was such that R complained about
> missing LaTeX in /usr/share/texmf/, while TeXLive 2011 is in
> the /usr/share/texlive/. I even tried to build symbolic links, to cheat
> R, but it was firm and complained throughout. Thus, I installed TeXLive
> 2007 from scratch, and R was/is happy. All additional packages for
> LaTeX, of course, must be included manually. It is a bit of hassle but
> not too much. Anyway, once you master how-to, it is smooth.
>
> Best,
> Petar
>
> On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 23:03 +1000, Peter Baker wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I've been using the F16 TexLive 2011 stable repo for F16 for quite some time
>>  baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2011/packages.fc16/
>>  (not the F15 repo as that would be asking for trouble) and for
>> F17beta I've been using the F17 TexLive 2012 repo
>>   baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/
>> in /etc/yum.repos.d/texlive-release.repo
>>
>> From memory I didn't install the standard texlive2007 first for F16 -
>> definitely didn't for F17beta  this week. I installed the recent
>> texlive first (as above) then R installed without  a hitch. My only
>> problem with F17beta is that for R 2.15 RBGL from Bioconductor won't
>> compile with GCC4.7 - I can't recall any problems with F16
>>
>> There is plenty of discussion about getting the current texlive into
>> standard fedora in standard distro but it revolves around licences
>> rather than any technical problems. It certainly seems to work well
>> although I had quite a few problems a year ago (bad dependencies) but
>> it seems to work pretty well these days. It is nicely set up with
>> collections (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive and
>> http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/collections ) and you can
>> install a particular style file with yum directly eg   yum install
>> 'tex(epsfig.sty)'
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> regards
>> Peter
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:02 AM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Petar Milin wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello ALL!
>> >> I am running Fedora 16 x86_64. Due to some dubious problems, that i
>> >> couldn't resolve, with the TeXLive (2007, which is a default), I removed
>> >> it.
>> >
>> >
>> > ughhh ---- filing a bug with Fedora would be useful as well, so they could
>> > address any systemic issues that may exist (we'll look into this later in
>> > this email)
>> >
>> >
>> >> That removed R as well, and some other dependent packages.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sadly, implying that 'yum' was used for the removal ... that tool is wayyy'
>> > too enthusiastic at removing packages;
>> >        rpm -e ...
>> > is more of a scalpel
>> >
>> >
>> >> Then, I
>> >> installed TeXLive 2011 from CTAN. However, when I wanted to install R,
>> >> from Fedora's repositories, it asks for some TeX dependencies (for
>> >> example, tex-preview, texinfo-tex, texlive, texlive-dvips etc.).
>> >
>> >
>> > Ley me try: on a fresh install of Fedora 16 (64 bit), I ran:
>> >
>> > [root at vm049244226 ~]# yum install R
>> >
>> >  ... which wanted much TeX goodness ...
>> >  texlive                 x86_64    2007-66.fc16                updates
>> >  1.6 M
>> >  texlive-dvips           x86_64    2007-66.fc16                updates
>> >  192 k
>> >  texlive-latex           x86_64    2007-66.fc16                updates
>> > 84 k
>> >  texlive-texmf           noarch    2007-40.fc16                updates
>> >  2.8 M
>> >  texlive-texmf-dvips     noarch    2007-40.fc16                updates
>> >  238 k
>> >  texlive-texmf-fonts     noarch    2007-40.fc16                updates
>> > 48 M
>> >  texlive-texmf-latex     noarch    2007-40.fc16                updates
>> >  5.2 M
>> >  texlive-utils           x86_64    2007-66.fc16                updates
>> >  251 k
>> >  ...
>> >
>> > and R seems to work here:
>> >
>> > [root at vm049244226 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>> > Fedora release 16 (Verne)
>> > [root at vm049244226 ~]# R
>> >
>> > R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>> > Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> > ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> >
>> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>> > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>> >
>> >  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>> >
>> > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>> > Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>> > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>> >
>> > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>> > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>> > Type 'q()' to quit R.
>> >
>> >> example(t.test)
>> >
>> >
>> > t.test> require(graphics)
>> >
>> > t.test> t.test(1:10,y=c(7:20))      # P = .00001855
>> >
>> >        Welch Two Sample t-test
>> >
>> > data:  1:10 and c(7:20)
>> > t = -5.4349, df = 21.982, p-value = 1.855e-05
>> > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
>> > 95 percent confidence interval:
>> >  -11.052802  -4.947198
>> > sample estimates:
>> > mean of x mean of y
>> >      5.5      13.5
>> >
>> >
>> > t.test> t.test(1:10,y=c(7:20, 200)) # P = .1245    -- NOT significant
>> > anymore
>> >
>> >        Welch Two Sample t-test
>> >
>> > data:  1:10 and c(7:20, 200)
>> > t = -1.6329, df = 14.165, p-value = 0.1245
>> > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
>> > 95 percent confidence interval:
>> >  -47.242900   6.376233
>> > sample estimates:
>> > mean of x mean of y
>> >  5.50000  25.93333
>> >
>> >
>> > t.test> ## Classical example: Student's sleep data
>> > t.test> plot(extra ~ group, data = sleep)
>> >
>> > t.test> ## Traditional interface
>> > t.test> with(sleep, t.test(extra[group == 1], extra[group == 2]))
>> >
>> >        Welch Two Sample t-test
>> >
>> > data:  extra[group == 1] and extra[group == 2]
>> > t = -1.8608, df = 17.776, p-value = 0.07939
>> > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
>> > 95 percent confidence interval:
>> >  -3.3654832  0.2054832
>> > sample estimates:
>> > mean of x mean of y
>> >     0.75      2.33
>> >
>> >
>> > t.test> ## Formula interface
>> > t.test> t.test(extra ~ group, data = sleep)
>> >
>> >        Welch Two Sample t-test
>> >
>> > data:  extra by group
>> > t = -1.8608, df = 17.776, p-value = 0.07939
>> > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
>> > 95 percent confidence interval:
>> >  -3.3654832  0.2054832
>> > sample estimates:
>> > mean in group 1 mean in group 2
>> >           0.75            2.33
>> >
>> >> q()
>> >
>> > Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>> > [root at vm049244226 ~]#
>> >
>> > ... so it _can_ work under Fedora 16 ...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> I know that new TeX is installed in other place
>> >> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/), than the old, default of the Tex 2007
>> >> (/usr/share/texmf/). But, I defined PATH properly:
>> >> PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86-64-linux:$PATH
>> >> Also, I have tried with the symbolic link:
>> >> ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2011 /usr/share/texmf
>> >>
>> >> So, I wonder why R asks for those TeX-packages? Can I tell it where to
>> >> look? In any case, how to fix this mess?
>> >
>> >
>> > The packaging decisions behind R included support for the ability to
>> > generate postscript, and documentation;  that dragged in all the TeX, in
>> > part
>> >
>> > A clean install of Fedora comes to mind, because mixing packaging systems is
>> > inherently 'pot luck' and random in nature, just as mixing tarball
>> > hand-compiled matter into a package managed system rarely works well
>> >
>> > sorry to bear that news ;(
>> >
>> > -- Russ herrold
>> >
>> >
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