R help - Mar 2018 - Fwd: Learning advanced R

Dear Jeff, 

Latex is also required for the R-manuals in the base R installation, and for
this it works fine on my PC.

Best, 
Albrecht

-- 
  Albrecht Kauffmann
  alkauffm at fastmail.fm

Am Mi, 14. M?r 2018, um 17:50, schrieb Jeff Newmiller:
> I recommend reading it directly via the website, or buying the book. 
> 
> If you are trying to build a PDF, then the "obvious" question is
whether
> you have LaTeX installed, which is an operating-system-dependent 
> procedure handled outside of R.
> -- 
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> On March 14, 2018 9:39:53 AM PDT, Eric Berger <ericjberger at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi Albrecht,
> >I am forwarding your reply to the full group.
> >
> >It's been a while since I did this and I don't remember the
details.
> >Maybe
> >someone else can comment. (I am a bit busy at the moment.)
> >If no one supplies the information in a few days I will try to take a
> >look.
> >
> >In the meantime you can start your reading on-line. :-)
> >
> >Regards,
> >Eric
> >
> >
> >Dear Eric,
> >
> >I downloaded the material from   https://github.com/hadley/adv-r as a
> >zip
> >file and decompressed it.  But, how to build the book from this? The
> >directory book contains a R-script buildbook.R. I downloaded all
> >packages
> >that are required, but the script does not run. Is there an additional
> >script required?
> >
> >Best,
> >Albrecht
> >
> >--
> >  Albrecht Kauffmann
> >  alkauffm at fastmail.fm
> >
> >Am Mi, 14. M?r 2018, um 09:13, schrieb Eric Berger:
> >> Bert's suggestion is good as a pointer to a variety of
resources.
> >> Sticking to the book format there are two of Hadley Wickham's
books,
> >which
> >> have the advantage that they are freely available.
> >> You can either read them online or download the source from github
> >and
> >> create your own copy (which you can then print, if desired.)
> >> 1. "R for Data Science"
> >>      online: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
> >>      github: https://github.com/hadley/r4ds
> >> 2. "Advanced R"
> >>      online: https://adv-r.hadley.nz/
> >>      github: https://github.com/hadley/adv-r
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Rich Shepard
> ><rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Mark Leeds wrote:
> >> >
> >> > See Hadley's advanced R
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >   +1 A very well writte, highly useful book. Recommended.
> >> >
> >> > Rich
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ______________________________________________
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> >> > ng-guide.html
> >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
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> >> >
> >>
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> >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
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Nothing you have said tells me you have LaTeX working (a binary install of R
does not depend on it), but if you actually know it is installed and available
to R then that isn't the problem. Since you have not said what you actually
did or what errors you encountered I can only shrug and suggest that that the
website is a complete rendering of the book and the for-sale version makes a
worthwhile contribution to the author and the community.
-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On March 14, 2018 9:58:38 AM PDT, Albrecht Kauffmann <alkauffm at
fastmail.fm> wrote:
>Dear Jeff, 
>
>Latex is also required for the R-manuals in the base R installation,
>and for this it works fine on my PC.
>
>Best, 
>Albrecht

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> Nothing you have said tells me you have LaTeX working (a binary install of
> R does not depend on it), but if you actually know it is installed and
> available to R then that isn't the problem. Since you have not said
what
> you actually did or what errors you encountered I can only shrug and
> suggest that that the website is a complete rendering of the book and the
> for-sale version makes a worthwhile contribution to the author and the
> community.
Jeff,

   Downloading the site as a .zip file and reading the README.md tells us
that pandoc is required. This is a format converter, apparently based on
Haskell given the large number of dependencies to build it. But, pandoc will
convert from markdown to LaTeX. I don't know the exact procedure as I've
not
yet taken the time to install all dependencies to pandoc and build it. The
pandoc website has documentation.

Regards,

Rich