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
I've found two problems in interpreting adv-r-master/book/build-book.r:
1. All pathes in build-book.r refer to the starting-directory
"adv-r-master". However, the script build-book.r is located in the
directory "book", which is located in directory
"adv-r-master". Therefore, pathes starting at "." are wrong
(should start at "..").
2. Some file names have endings "Rmd", but e.g. in the line
"chapters <- dir(".", pattern = "\\.rmd$")"
these endings are named "rmd". Therefore, the files (e.g.
"base-types.Rmd") cannot be found.
Pandoc I have installed. Maybe there will arise further problems, but still I am
experimenting with pathes.
Best,
Albrecht
--
Albrecht Kauffmann
alkauffm at fastmail.fm
Am Mi, 14. M?r 2018, um 18:56, schrieb Rich Shepard:> 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
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> 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.
I've found the solution to compile the adv-r-book from source: After doing
some settings (see:
https://travis-ci.org/hadley/adv-r/jobs/353347080/config )
and installation of netlify-cli, the command-line is:
Rscript -e
'bookdown::render_book("index.Rmd","bookdown::pdf_book")'
This works fine. Thank you for all hints!
Best, Albrecht
--
Albrecht Kauffmann
alkauffm at fastmail.fm
Am Mi, 14. M?r 2018, um 19:24, schrieb Albrecht
Kauffmann:> I've found two problems in interpreting adv-r-master/book/build-book.r:
>
> 1. All pathes in build-book.r refer to the starting-directory "adv-r-
> master". However, the script build-book.r is located in the directory
> "book", which is located in directory "adv-r-master".
Therefore, pathes
> starting at "." are wrong (should start at "..").
>
> 2. Some file names have endings "Rmd", but e.g. in the line
"chapters <-
> dir(".", pattern = "\\.rmd$")" these endings are
named "rmd".
> Therefore, the files (e.g. "base-types.Rmd") cannot be found.
>
> Pandoc I have installed. Maybe there will arise further problems, but
> still I am experimenting with pathes.
>
> Best,
> Albrecht
>
> --
> Albrecht Kauffmann
> alkauffm at fastmail.fm
>
> Am Mi, 14. M?r 2018, um 18:56, schrieb Rich Shepard:
> > 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
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > 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.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> 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.