Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-25 Thread Stefan Grosse
//people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf It really was a not too short intro. I'll have a look at it. Yes definitly not too short. But it states in LaTeX in 133 min ... Seems to be for Linux only. My server is Windows, even if I have the rest of the components. Hm at the projects'

Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-25 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Tom, To add a few things to explore: - I'd definitely go with LaTeX. Depending on how much formatting control you want, though, and if your coworkers are reluctant to jump into LaTeX, you might start with reStructuredText (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) or text2tags

Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Jack B. Arnold wrote: Dear Tom, Looking forward to your book. Psychologists and students clearly need all the encouragement to use R that they can get. I have been using it for a couple of years now, and find, that for most purposes, it is just a little harder to get into than the

Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Mark Orr wrote: Tom, i'm a psychologist with much interest in training future psychologists (and others) to use R/S+. So, if you need anyone to review or give feedback on draft versions of your work, I'd be happy to review. Thank you! That is a very generous offer. The project is so far

Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Tom Backer Johnsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together (Statistics using R) where the target audience for the book is psychologists and students of psychology. We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki

Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-24 Thread Stefan Grosse
I think Peter Dalgaard is right. Since you are able to use R I believe you will be very fast in learning LaTeX. I think it needs less then a week to learn the most common LaTeX commands. And setting up a wiki and trying then to convert this into a printable document format plus learning the wiki

Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Stefan Grosse wrote: I think Peter Dalgaard is right. Since you are able to use R I believe you will be very fast in learning LaTeX. I think it needs less then a week to learn the most common LaTeX commands. And setting up a wiki and trying then to convert this into a printable document

[R] Authoring a book

2006-08-22 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together (Statistics using R) where the target audience for the book is psychologists and students of psychology. We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki when writing the text. Is that a good idea? Does anybody have any