Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together
("Statistics using R") where the target audience for the book is
psychologists and students of psychology.
We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki when writing the
text. Is that a good idea? Does anybody have any experience in that
direction? What alternatives are there?
The tool (Wiki) would have to be able to handle tables and
mathematical formulas in some manner, and of course, some mechanism to
export the contents to a word processor in the final stages.
I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL.
Tom
Jack B. Arnold wrote:> Dear Tom, > > Looking forward to your book. "Psychologists and students" clearly need > all the encouragement to use R that they can get. I have been using it > for a couple of years now, and find, that for most purposes, it is just > a little harder to get into than the expensive commercial packages. > > That said, as an old timer, I can't pass up the opportunity to > discourage younger colleagues from using constructions like "Me and some > colleagues ..." "Some colleagues and I" is a lot more polite and it is > also grammatically correct.Thank you. English is my second (or third, perhaps fourth) language and my mastering of it is (naturally) less than perfect. Tom> > The best and good luck. > > Jack > > Jack B. Arnold > Professor of Psychology, Retired > Saint Mary's College of California > > Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: >> Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together >> ("Statistics using R") where the target audience for the book is >> psychologists and students of psychology. >> >> We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki when writing the >> text. Is that a good idea? Does anybody have any experience in that >> direction? What alternatives are there? >> >> The tool (Wiki) would have to be able to handle tables and >> mathematical formulas in some manner, and of course, some mechanism to >> export the contents to a word processor in the final stages. >> >> I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL. >> >> Tom >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> 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. >>-- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometrics Unit, Faculty of Psychology | | University of Bergen, Christies gt. 12, N-5015 Bergen, NORWAY | | Tel : +47-5558-9185 Fax : +47-5558-9879 | | Email : backer at psych.uib.no URL : http://www.galton.uib.no/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
Mark Orr wrote:> Tom, i'm a psychologist with much interest in training future > psychologists (and others) to use R/S+. So, if you need anyone to > review or give feedback on draft versions of your work, I'd be happy to > review.Thank you! That is a very generous offer. The project is so far very much in its infancy, but I may accept the offer when we have something to review. Tom +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometrics Unit, Faculty of Psychology | | University of Bergen, Christies gt. 12, N-5015 Bergen, NORWAY | | Tel : +47-5558-9185 Fax : +47-5558-9879 | | Email : backer at psych.uib.no URL : http://www.galton.uib.no/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> writes:> Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together > ("Statistics using R") where the target audience for the book is > psychologists and students of psychology. > > We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki when writing the > text. Is that a good idea? Does anybody have any experience in that > direction? What alternatives are there? > > The tool (Wiki) would have to be able to handle tables and > mathematical formulas in some manner, and of course, some mechanism to > export the contents to a word processor in the final stages. > > I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL.SVN and LaTeX would be my tools of choice. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Peter Dalgaard wrote:> Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> writes: > >> Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together >> ("Statistics using R") where the target audience for the book is >> psychologists and students of psychology. >> >> We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki when writing the >> text. Is that a good idea? Does anybody have any experience in that >> direction? What alternatives are there? >> >> The tool (Wiki) would have to be able to handle tables and >> mathematical formulas in some manner, and of course, some mechanism to >> export the contents to a word processor in the final stages. >> >> I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL. > > SVN and LaTeX would be my tools of choice.A very different approach. SVN is not something I am aquainted with, but should be worth looking into. As to LaTex, the closest I have worked with is Lyx. The problem is, there are two other authors I have to persuade to learn new tools. So, it might be too complex. Tom>-- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometrics Unit, Faculty of Psychology | | University of Bergen, Christies gt. 12, N-5015 Bergen, NORWAY | | Tel : +47-5558-9185 Fax : +47-5558-9879 | | Email : backer at psych.uib.no URL : http://www.galton.uib.no/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
I think Peter Dalgaard is right. Since you are able to use R I believe you will be very fast in learning LaTeX. I think it needs less then a week to learn the most common LaTeX commands. And setting up a wiki and trying then to convert this into a printable document format plus learning the wiki syntax is probably more time consuming. Beside this R is able to work perfectly together with LaTeX, it creates LaTeX output and is doing excellent graphics in the EPS/PS format. The best introduction for LaTeX is the not so short introduction: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf If you still are not convinced have a look at UniWakkaWiki: http://uniwakka.sourceforge.net/HomePage It is a Wiki for Science and University purposes and claims to be able to export to Openoffice as well as to LaTeX. Stefan Grosse>>> >>> I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL. >>> >> SVN and LaTeX would be my tools of choice. >> > > A very different approach. SVN is not something I am aquainted with, > but should be worth looking into. As to LaTex, the closest I have > worked with is Lyx. > > The problem is, there are two other authors I have to persuade to > learn new tools. So, it might be too complex. > > Tom >