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Document required TeXlive packages for full build #422
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I don't install latex using I installed the MacTex from https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html It is around 2.5 GB and I have everything I need to build vignettes. |
Dang. 2.5gb is a lot. When I started with Linux 'we all' used a dvi/ps manual by Linus's office mate in Helsinki, Lars Wirzenius. It had this glorious line of how you could fit an entire Linux system into 200mb. We may "soon" have a single CRAN package bigger than that as BH is about half-way there.... |
Yes, it is quite big. It is more like |
Yes. I think I saw that with some Docker containers. Just adding texlive* adds, as I recall, just under 1gb. It is huge. Which I why I usually tell Travis not to bother with vignettes -- just installing all the texlive stuff adds a minute or more to each run. One day when we're fully containerized I'll revisit. |
Yeah...i fought with this one today a bit (and complained to dirk which resulted in this issue). Just a minor annoyance when getting things set up in a new environment for development. |
Come to think about it, I could have sent you to one @cboettig 's "fatter" Rocker containers (and their build recipes) because those too contain everything we need to put tests, vignettes, packages, ... together. But regardless, what one needs for a full |
Yes, but then I'd have to admit (probably on a resume or something) that I'm involved with R in some way :P. (says the man who still has PHP on his resume) |
On Debian/Ubuntu:
What is it from brew / on OS X?
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