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.
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