[R] Fwd: Learning advanced R

Albrecht Kauffmann alkauffm at fastmail.fm
Wed Mar 14 17:58:38 CET 2018


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. Mär 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. Mär 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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