R help - Jan 2004 - Installing R on 64-bit Solaris 2.8 --- follow-up

Hello R-users,

thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Peng for there prompt replies on
installing R on a Solaris 64-bit machine.  R is now running and seems to be
doing fine.  I realy would like to have access to the manuals so I can
climb most of the learning curve on my own -- I am a long time user of
Splus, hence I am not expecting the learning curve to be too steep.  On the
Sun machine that R is installed neither LaTeX, nor pdfLaTeX nor infomake is
installed, hence the manuals could not be built.  I am not administrator of
the machine and the admin. people are vey reluctant to install the required
freeware, I am looking for a workaround.

I have LaTeX and pdfLaTeX installed on my PC, from which I am accessing the
Sun to run Splus, and soon R I hope.  ESS and Emacs are installed on both
machines.  I routinely produce EPS graphs and LaTeX tables on the Sun and
through Emacs import them on the PC and imbed them in my LaTeX
documentation for stats. projects.  My question: is it possible, without
building R on the PC, to build the manuals on the PC either through
bringing parts of the R tree on the Solaris machine or by downloading parts
of the PC distribution from CRAN.  Any pointers in the direction of
instructions on how to proceed would be very highly appreciated.  By the
way, if that could be useful, I also have Cygwin installed on the PC.

Thank you very much for your support,

G?rald Jean
Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat
t?lephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
t?lecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
courrier ?lectronique: gerald.jean at spgdag.ca

"In God we trust all others must bring data"  W. Edwards Deming

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 Gerald.Jean at spgdag.ca wrote:
> Hello R-users,
>
> thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Peng for there prompt replies on
> installing R on a Solaris 64-bit machine.  R is now running and seems to be
> doing fine.  I realy would like to have access to the manuals so I can
> climb most of the learning curve on my own -- I am a long time user of
> Splus, hence I am not expecting the learning curve to be too steep.  On the
> Sun machine that R is installed neither LaTeX, nor pdfLaTeX nor infomake is
> installed, hence the manuals could not be built.  I am not administrator of
> the machine and the admin. people are vey reluctant to install the required
> freeware, I am looking for a workaround.
>
You can download the PDF manuals from CRAN.

	-thomas

If you just want to look at the manuals, you can download them from the 
CRAN website in PDF format.  Otherwise, you can build R on a Windows 
machine but it's not as straightforward (in my opinion) as on a Unix 
system.  There are detailed instructions included with the sources.

-roger

Gerald.Jean at spgdag.ca wrote:
> Hello R-users,
> 
> thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Peng for there prompt replies on
> installing R on a Solaris 64-bit machine.  R is now running and seems to be
> doing fine.  I realy would like to have access to the manuals so I can
> climb most of the learning curve on my own -- I am a long time user of
> Splus, hence I am not expecting the learning curve to be too steep.  On the
> Sun machine that R is installed neither LaTeX, nor pdfLaTeX nor infomake is
> installed, hence the manuals could not be built.  I am not administrator of
> the machine and the admin. people are vey reluctant to install the required
> freeware, I am looking for a workaround.
> 
> I have LaTeX and pdfLaTeX installed on my PC, from which I am accessing the
> Sun to run Splus, and soon R I hope.  ESS and Emacs are installed on both
> machines.  I routinely produce EPS graphs and LaTeX tables on the Sun and
> through Emacs import them on the PC and imbed them in my LaTeX
> documentation for stats. projects.  My question: is it possible, without
> building R on the PC, to build the manuals on the PC either through
> bringing parts of the R tree on the Solaris machine or by downloading parts
> of the PC distribution from CRAN.  Any pointers in the direction of
> instructions on how to proceed would be very highly appreciated.  By the
> way, if that could be useful, I also have Cygwin installed on the PC.
> 
> Thank you very much for your support,
> 
> G?rald Jean
> Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat
> t?lephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
> t?lecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
> courrier ?lectronique: gerald.jean at spgdag.ca
> 
> "In God we trust all others must bring data"  W. Edwards Deming
> 
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What OS does the `PC' run?  If Windows, the only differences between the 
manuals built under Windows and under Solaris will be in the reference
manual, and you can get a PDF version of that from 
http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html (although I doubt if you really 
want it).   PDF versions of all the other manuals are there too.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 Gerald.Jean at spgdag.ca wrote:
> Hello R-users,
> 
> thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Peng for there prompt replies on
> installing R on a Solaris 64-bit machine.  R is now running and seems to be
> doing fine.  I realy would like to have access to the manuals so I can
> climb most of the learning curve on my own -- I am a long time user of
> Splus, hence I am not expecting the learning curve to be too steep.  On the
> Sun machine that R is installed neither LaTeX, nor pdfLaTeX nor infomake is
> installed, hence the manuals could not be built.  I am not administrator of
> the machine and the admin. people are vey reluctant to install the required
> freeware, I am looking for a workaround.
> 
> I have LaTeX and pdfLaTeX installed on my PC, from which I am accessing the
> Sun to run Splus, and soon R I hope.  ESS and Emacs are installed on both
> machines.  I routinely produce EPS graphs and LaTeX tables on the Sun and
> through Emacs import them on the PC and imbed them in my LaTeX
> documentation for stats. projects.  My question: is it possible, without
> building R on the PC, to build the manuals on the PC either through
> bringing parts of the R tree on the Solaris machine or by downloading parts
> of the PC distribution from CRAN.  Any pointers in the direction of
> instructions on how to proceed would be very highly appreciated.  By the
> way, if that could be useful, I also have Cygwin installed on the PC.
> 
> Thank you very much for your support,
> 
> G?rald Jean
> Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat
> t?lephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
> t?lecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
> courrier ?lectronique: gerald.jean at spgdag.ca
> 
> "In God we trust all others must bring data"  W. Edwards Deming
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> 
> 
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Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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