Re: [R] the making of _R_ eBooks
From: "Amos B. Elberg" | If you take a look at rmarkdown and the rticles package, you'll find a template for | a "tufte ebook" in the style of Edward Tufte. From: "Sven E. Templer" |> Q3: any other recommendations? | You might be interested in the very easy to use R markdown, see: | http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ Dear Sven, dear Amos, that's what I was looking for! Thanks for pointing me to rmarkdown, rticles package and the Tufte template. best, Wolfgang G Lindner Leichlingen, Germany __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] the making of _R_ eBooks
Dear Prof. Ripley, thank you for the 2 links w/r to my question. Section 2.3 in 'R Installation and Administration' seems very condensed to me. But there is a mention of Calibre, I will read about all that. | > PLEASE do read the posting guide | PLEASE do! I did. Best Wolfgang Lindner - Original Message - From: "Prof Brian Ripley" To: "Dr. Wolfgang Lindner" ; "Help R" Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [R] the making of _R_ eBooks | On 23/03/2015 08:50, Dr. Wolfgang Lindner wrote: | > Dear list members, | > | > I like the look and feel of the eBook versions of the R manuals very much. | > So I would like to generate eBooks (teaching material etc) in that look. | > | > Q1: is there a description how the _R_ ebooks have been produced? | > Q2: which (free) software was used for them? | > Q3: any other recommendations? | | fortunes::fortune(14) applies. In this case TM is | http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Making-the-manuals | . | | > | > Seaching the internet gives me e.g. | > [1] | > https://sites.google.com/site/richardbyrnepdsite/ebooks-and-audiobooks/create-your-own-ebooks | > [2] opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way | > [3] | > http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/creating-a-ebook-with-libreoffice-writer/ | > | > but I m not sure, if there are better possibilities.. | > | > Thanks for any hint or link by expert R users. | > | > Wolfgang Lindner | > Leichlingen, Germany | | > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html | | PLEASE do! | | -- | Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk | Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford | 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] the making of _R_ eBooks
Dear John, thank you for your kind answer and the historical excursions. Your detailed post may help and inform other readers, too. Thanks for your hint to TexStudio (I use[d] Texworks, Texshell, WinEDT). So TeX will not be the problem, but I have first to learn about texinfo. | > Thanks for any hint or link by expert R users. | Oh, well, that excludes me. I'm not an expert. No, your answer includes you :) It was very helpful. Indeed, I should better have said 'enthusiastic R users' ;) best Wolfgang - Original Message - From: "John McKown" To: "Dr. Wolfgang Lindner" Cc: "Help R" Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [R] the making of _R_ eBooks | On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Dr. Wolfgang Lindner | wrote: | > Dear list members, | > | > I like the look and feel of the eBook versions of the R manuals very much. | > So I would like to generate eBooks (teaching material etc) in that look. | | I am not an expert. But I have looked at the source, so I can give you | some information. | | > | > Q1: is there a description how the _R_ ebooks have been produced? | | Looking at the source, it appears that the source manuals are in a | document markup language called "GNU Texinfo". | https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ | You can think of this as something akin to, but different from, HTML | or "markdown" encoding. Texinfo is an evolution by the system first | designed by Richard Stallman of MIT. He is the driving force behind | the GPL and most of the GNU software which forms the basis of the user | space commands for Linux and the *BSD operating systems. Texinfo is | then converted to TeX. TeX is the typesetting language designed by Dr. | Donald Knuth. TeX, nominally, is converted into a DVI printer control | language (DeVice Independent). But in the case of creating a PDF file, | there is a processor called "pdftex", | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PdfTeX, which produces a PDF file as | output . A good site for TeX is https://tug.org/ | | Texinfo has the plus of also having processor which will convert it to | UNIX "man" (manual) pages and HTML web pages. So one "source" document | can generate three different types of output document file types. | | Most people use a enhanced TeX called LaTeX instead of "plain TeX" | when using TeX. LaTeX can be read up on here: | http://www.latex-project.org/ A good TeX document processor is | TeXstudio at http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ . I use this one myself | (which is not necessary a strong endorsement because I'm nobody | special). | | I feel the need to warn you that TeX is very powerful and, at least to | me, quite difficult, with a fairly step learning curve. Which may be | why the R project uses Texinfo because it is quite a bit easier to | learn. | | | > Q2: which (free) software was used for them? | | See the links above. On Fedora Linux, I get the TeX oriented software | from a bunch of packages which start with "texlive". More information, | including the processors for Linux, Windows, and Mac are at | https://www.tug.org/texlive/ | | > Q3: any other recommendations? | | You might consider LyX. | http://www.lyx.org/ | LyX is a document processor. It would likely be easier to use than the | above if you are used to MS Word or other word processing system. It | is cross platform: Linux, Windows, and Mac. It stores files in its own | textual format, which is somewhat human readable. LyX, like Texinfo, | translates its format into TeX as an intermediate on its way to its | ultimate destination. I am still learning LyX, but I personally like | it. | | Your mention of LibreOffice is also a fairly good one. I, personally, | use LibreOffice. But I don't use it for big documents. I have a | learned aversion for word processors because it is so easy for them to | be misused. In my opinion, a good document needs good metadata in it | as well as just "looking pretty". Word processor users tend to focus | on the format and not the content. That's just my opinion, based on | what I've seen where I work. | | > | > Seaching the internet gives me e.g. | > [1] | > https://sites.google.com/site/richardbyrnepdsite/ebooks-and-audiobooks/create-your-own-ebooks | > [2] opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way | > [3] http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/creating-a-ebook-with-libreoffice-writer/ | > | > but I m not sure, if there are better possibilities.. | > | > Thanks for any hint or link by expert R users. | | Oh, well, that excludes me. I'm not an expert. But maybe it was helpful anyway. | | > | > Wolfgang Lindner | > Leichlingen, Germany | | -- | If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? | | He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. | | 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphon
[R] the making of _R_ eBooks
Dear list members, I like the look and feel of the eBook versions of the R manuals very much. So I would like to generate eBooks (teaching material etc) in that look. Q1: is there a description how the _R_ ebooks have been produced? Q2: which (free) software was used for them? Q3: any other recommendations? Seaching the internet gives me e.g. [1] https://sites.google.com/site/richardbyrnepdsite/ebooks-and-audiobooks/create-your-own-ebooks [2] opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way [3] http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/creating-a-ebook-with-libreoffice-writer/ but I m not sure, if there are better possibilities.. Thanks for any hint or link by expert R users. Wolfgang Lindner Leichlingen, Germany __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Tele_R - first experiences
Some R users asked offlist for the link to Tele_R. Sorry, here it is: [3] http://telemath.altervista.org/ -- Best, Wolfgang Lindner Am 19.03.2015 um 21:57 schrieb Ista Zahn : > Hey that's really nice. I'm not sure how practical it is, but it works > surprisingly well. > > Best, > Ista > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Dr. Wolfgang Lindner > wrote: >> Dear R community, >> >> some days ago Enric Cervera Mateu has installed an R client >> with instant messaging, which is usable very simple via the >> public name @Tele_R in the messenger Telegram. >> >> I have tested Tele_R and e.g. tried most of the examples from >> [1] W.N. Venables, D.M. Smith, R Core Team. "An Introduction to R." R Core >> Team. iBooks. >> and of §1 of >> [2] B. Everitt, T. Hothorn. "An R and S-plus Companion to Multivariate >> Analysis. Springer. >> All is working very good in this environment. >> >> I am very impressed. I like the possibility to use R without installation >> complications with my iPhone, iPad or HTC One. >> The answers are send very fast, the idea to use a chat for mathematics >> communication seems to be especially suited to beginners: >> direct dive in, OS as you like, working anywhere, talking over distance, >> communicate with your peers or students (share code or >> examples etc even during a lesson - if a beamer is not available) etc. >> >> I would like to thank Enric for his valuable work to make the great work of >> the R team accessible to smartphones and tablets. >> I think that Tele_R is a very comfortable tool for teaching and learning R >> at an undergraduate level. >> >> And I would like to hear about the experiences, opinions or ideas of other >> members of the R community with respect of the use of Tele_R. >> >> I hope that this is not the wrong list to say these words. >> >> Best, >> Wolfgang Lindner >> Leichlingen, Germany >> >> __ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > __ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] Tele_R - first experiences
Dear R community, some days ago Enric Cervera Mateu has installed an R client with instant messaging, which is usable very simple via the public name @Tele_R in the messenger Telegram. I have tested Tele_R and e.g. tried most of the examples from [1] W.N. Venables, D.M. Smith, R Core Team. "An Introduction to R." R Core Team. iBooks. and of §1 of [2] B. Everitt, T. Hothorn. "An R and S-plus Companion to Multivariate Analysis. Springer. All is working very good in this environment. I am very impressed. I like the possibility to use R without installation complications with my iPhone, iPad or HTC One. The answers are send very fast, the idea to use a chat for mathematics communication seems to be especially suited to beginners: direct dive in, OS as you like, working anywhere, talking over distance, communicate with your peers or students (share code or examples etc even during a lesson - if a beamer is not available) etc. I would like to thank Enric for his valuable work to make the great work of the R team accessible to smartphones and tablets. I think that Tele_R is a very comfortable tool for teaching and learning R at an undergraduate level. And I would like to hear about the experiences, opinions or ideas of other members of the R community with respect of the use of Tele_R. I hope that this is not the wrong list to say these words. Best, Wolfgang Lindner Leichlingen, Germany __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
