[R-SIG-Mac] finding things in R manuals

[Ruth Ripley]

Thanks for the scripts, Berend. With one or two amendments they ran 
successfully (my compilers have -4.2 attached to their names). But it 
did seem rather a lot of work (on the part of my computer). After 
Duncan's response, I decided it might be easier to write an R script 
using download.file to get them from CRAN. My R is much better than my 
shell script.

Ruth

On 03/02/2012 11:54, Berend Hasselman wrote:
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> On 03-02-2012, at 12:37, Ruth Ripley wrote:
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>> I prefer Adobe reader's directory search. But I don't have the up-to-date set of pdf manuals on my computer. I can do an easy global search of the html manuals with text wrangler but I then have to read html. I am thinking I will have to start building my own R just to get the ability to build the manual pdf's.
>>
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> I don't think you have to do that. I also like using the pdf manuals for browsing/searching/...
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> I recently built the pdf manuals for R-2.14.1. I have attached two scripts that did it for me.
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> The setup script prepares the R build system.
> The make-R-pdf script just makes the pdf manuals and copies them to the current directory.
> Both these scripts should placed in the directory where you have unpacked R sources (R-2.14.1.tar.gz).
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> Comments and improvements welcome.
>
> Berend
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>> Ruth
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>> On 03/02/2012 01:14, David Winsemius wrote:
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>>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Ruth Ripley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> Would it be possible to include the pdf versions of the R manuals in
>>>> the CRAN mac R install? I find them easier to global search than html
>>>> ones. (I am used to having them on Windows.)
>>>
>>> I generally copy the link to the html and paste them into my browser.
>>> The search in the default GUI-invoked help panel doesn't handle
>>> punctuation or revisions to searches at all well. The text get
>>> overwritten in the bottom entry slot and I don't think the
>>> search-revisions actually occur.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ruth
>>>>
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