If we distribute prebuilt packages for OSX we can provide both html and pdf files and leave out latex help.
stefano
On Marted́, giu 17, 2003, at 19:33 Europe/Rome, 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. Would that really be preferred to HTML?
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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