[Rd] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R version on gifi
Don MacQueen
macq at llnl.gov
Tue Jun 17 12:13:18 MEST 2003
At 6:33 PM +0100 6/17/03, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Don MacQueen wrote:
>
>> At 5:45 PM +0200 6/17/03, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> >There is still one issue to consider in this context: source
>> >packages. A really 'plain' Mac OS X can't be used to install source
>> >packages as-is, basically because there are three missing things:
>> >Dev Tools, g77 and latex. The first one is official, so we could
>> >require that (and probably have to). G77 is really just a few files,
>> >so the installer could add it if necessary, but I'm not sure about
>> >latex. Is building packages w/o latex documentation an option?
>>
>> For an OS X user with no unix background, I would think that pdf is
>> the preferred format, and sufficient.
>
>PDF is produced via latex in R.
I didn't know that. Does it require a full latex installation, or
could one get by with just a subset, perhaps just pdflatex? It's
probably a bad idea to complicate matters that way, though.
> Would that really be preferred to HTML?
Speaking for myself, yes.
Speaking of which, this is another area where OS X is not like other
versions of unix; the "native OS X" way to start a browser on the
command line is with the "open" command, i.e., "open filename.html".
OS X needs, for example,
browseURL('somefile.html',browser='open')
>Nothing in R is setup to produce PDF help, and especially not PDF
>hyperlinked between different documents (which is a problem in a dynamic
>framework).
>
>BTW, could this sort of discussion go on in R-SIG-Mac or R-devel but not
>both since R-SIG-Mac is a closed list.
>
>--
>Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
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