Read the README.md file that comes with the project. If you scroll down its going to be printed out on the screen, too, at the bottom of the list of files.
If this is the one: https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2-book then you read the README.md which I have pasted below. Ideally you have RStudio installed, note the highlighted part. Otherwise you type the commands on the command line. You're going to need git installed, you can install it in memory using the package manager of the liveCD if its not included, otherwise install it on your linux machine first, and you are also going to need gcc (I think) and the dependencies listed in the next section: Build the book You can build the pdf by cloning this repo and running make: $ git clone https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2-book.git $ cd ggplot2-book $ make If you use RStudio, you can press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + B to run make. Installing dependencies To successfully build this book, you'll need R package development prerequisites <https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486498-Package-Development-Prerequisites> , pandoc and pandoc-citeproc <http://pandoc.org/installing.html>, potentially the Inconsolata font <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/inconsolata/>, and a number of R packages. The CRAN packages we depend on are listed in the DESCRIPTION, so you can install them quickly via devtools <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/devtools/>: devtools::install_deps("path/to/ggplot2-book", dependencies = TRUE) There are also a couple GitHub packages which we depend on: devtools::install_github(c("adletaw/captioner", "hadley/bookdown")) On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Larry Brigman wrote: > > > You could try it from a git clone of the project. > > Thanks, Larry. I'll work on this over the weekend. Either the download > or > another approach. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug