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. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
