R help - Mar 2015 - 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" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "Dr. Wolfgang Lindner" <lindnerw at t-online.de>; "Help
R"
<r-help at r-project.org>
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,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
| Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
| 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK

> Q3: any other recommendations?
You might be interested in the very easy to use R markdown, see:
http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

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From: "Amos B. Elberg" <amos.elberg at gmail.com>
| 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" <sven.templer at gmail.com>
|> 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