Hi, Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic ``R Newsletter'' beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a mixture of articles describing 1) new features in R itself 2) contributed add-on packages 3) nice applications 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R 5) or ... OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you simply have a nice application using R. The idea is to have the newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than welcome! The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file should be fine as contribution. Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new year! Best, Fritz Leisch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body? Regards Yves Gauvreau> -----Message d'origine----- > De : owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Friedrich Leisch > Envoye : Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:15 PM > A : r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Objet : [Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles > > > > Hi, > > Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic > > ``R Newsletter'' > > beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a > mixture of articles describing > 1) new features in R itself > 2) contributed add-on packages > 3) nice applications > 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R > 5) or ... > > OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a > package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you > find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or > letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you > simply have a nice application using R. The idea is to have the > newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package > could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate > the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than > welcome! > > The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format > will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file > should be fine as contribution. > > Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new > year! > > Best, > Fritz Leisch > > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > -.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-devel mailing list -- Read > http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > _._._._._._._-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi,
where should we make submissions? To you directly?
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Friedrich Leisch wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic
>
> ``R Newsletter''
>
> beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a
> mixture of articles describing
> 1) new features in R itself
> 2) contributed add-on packages
> 3) nice applications
> 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R
> 5) or ...
>
> OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a
> package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you
> find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or
> letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you
> simply have a nice application using R. The idea is to have the
> newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package
> could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate
> the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than
> welcome!
>
> The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format
> will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file
> should be fine as contribution.
>
> Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new
> year!
>
> Best,
> Fritz Leisch
>
>
>
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Bill.Venables@CMIS.CSIRO.AU
2000-Dec-21 03:38 UTC
[Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles
With regard to the burgeoning side-discussion on whether or not to accept WORD submissions, I plead for a quick, decisive and final ruling in the negative. Apart from the major practical considerations to do with the amount of work putting together a document from sources of both kinds and achieving an acceptable result, there is the relatively minor issue of principle: R is open source software and should do what it can to promote the use of other open source products. I fully realise that this will create problems for people who are not familiar with LaTeX. I hope for people like Yves it is the start of a liberating journey of discovery...but for many it will not be. It would seem to me the best option for such people is simply to accept submissions in neat ASCII, (with some diffidence, of course, as such submissions will require someone to do a lot of work before they can be incorporated into a document). When it comes to submitting graphics, though, I have no easy solution for those unfortunates crippled and imprisoned by the MicroSoft arrogation of the universe. It would be simple if R had a pdf.graph device: is any such development in prospect? For that matter, how should Unix/Linux people submit graphics? Charles Berry observes:> > FWIW, at least one of the equation setting add-ons for WORD > (MathType, see http://www.mathtype.com) has TeX as its engine. > It will optionally provide (La)TeX on the clipboard for pasting > into non-WORD docs. So a WORD user could provide ascii for the > text and (La)TeX for equations.Yes, but.... MathType is yet another (stiffly priced) commercial add-on, it is only one version of MathType that has the TeX output options and as far as I can see mathematical typesetting is not going to be a large part of the newsletter, anyway. I would also claim that the TeX output you get from such automatically produced stuff is not always very good TeX, too...for example, vulgar fractions such as 1/2 are always too large. I'm not all that sure this intended courtesy to the person putting the newsletter together would actually save very much work. The best solution from all points of view is the hard one: encourage submissions in GOOD LaTeX. Bill Venables. -- Bill Venables, CSIRO/CMIS Environmetrics Project Email: Bill.Venables@cmis.csiro.au Phone: +61 7 3826 7251 Fax: +61 7 3826 7304 Postal: PO Box 120, Cleveland, Qld 4163, AUSTRALIA "Natum videte, regem angelorum. Venite adoremus!" -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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2000-Dec-21 04:21 UTC
[Rd] RE: R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles
Bill Venables writes: > With regard to the burgeoning side-discussion on whether or not to accept > WORD submissions, I plead for a quick, decisive and final ruling in the > negative. Why not just give the word users a latex template they can fill in. After all most of latex is just copying from previous documents. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
At 08:06 21/12/00 +0000, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:>One option for Word users is to save in RTF, which is at least a documented >format (and shared between word processors). Then get a copy of rtf2latex >or (better) rtf2latex2e from CTAN and check out the conversion.I use StarOffice under WinNT and it seems that the RTF files it produces cannot be read by MS Word. I am not sure that RTF is really "portable". I agree with a previous message: At 17:21 21/12/00 +1300, j.visch@math.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:>Why not just give the word users a latex template they can fill in. >After all most of latex is just copying from previous documents.And yes, we can produce PostScript figures under Windows as well. Question: what will be the editorial policy of R Newsletter? Will papers be reviewed? ... Emmanuel Paradis -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> From: "Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:59:30 -0500 > > Ok, I understand the problematic and I have no problems with it. The next > question that comes to mind is: Is there some Latex software or something > that one could use to produce Latex documents on a Windows platform? > > Although I did it in the past, I would prefer not to install Linux. I'm not > a guru of Emacs but I'm using it quite a lot these days. Could there be > something that works with Emacs and with which I could produce Latex docs > maybe?Here's what we recommend to Windows users. Get fptex (www.fptex.org) from a CTAN site near you, or from a copy of the TeXLive5 CD-ROM (http://www.tug.org/texlive/ from the TeX Users Group TUG, or you can download the image and cut it yourself if you have a good Internet connection). Install AucTeX for your emacs, from http://sunsite.dk/auctex/, as that gives you a very capable latex mode for emacs. This works fine on NT if you set shell-file-name to cmd.exe. On Win9x, you may have to find an alternative shell if you want to run latex from the menus. Some people prefer the shareware WinEdt editor, which gives you a customized latex editor: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/ It may work better with MikTeX. All the other pieces are also on TeXLive5. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Fritz: A while ago you hid the windows-9x and windows-NT directories on CRAN, so that old scripts could still use them but they wouldn't be displayed to confuse new users. I was just looking at the cran.us mirror, and apparently the directory hiding didn't propagate there. I checked several other mirrors (I couldn't get through to DK or HU) and it appears that only the Austrian site does the hiding. Duncan Murdoch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._