Hello R-users, thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Peng for there prompt replies on installing R on a Solaris 64-bit machine. R is now running and seems to be doing fine. I realy would like to have access to the manuals so I can climb most of the learning curve on my own -- I am a long time user of Splus, hence I am not expecting the learning curve to be too steep. On the Sun machine that R is installed neither LaTeX, nor pdfLaTeX nor infomake is installed, hence the manuals could not be built. I am not administrator of the machine and the admin. people are vey reluctant to install the required freeware, I am looking for a workaround.
I have LaTeX and pdfLaTeX installed on my PC, from which I am accessing the Sun to run Splus, and soon R I hope. ESS and Emacs are installed on both machines. I routinely produce EPS graphs and LaTeX tables on the Sun and through Emacs import them on the PC and imbed them in my LaTeX documentation for stats. projects. My question: is it possible, without building R on the PC, to build the manuals on the PC either through bringing parts of the R tree on the Solaris machine or by downloading parts of the PC distribution from CRAN. Any pointers in the direction of instructions on how to proceed would be very highly appreciated. By the way, if that could be useful, I also have Cygwin installed on the PC. Thank you very much for your support, G�rald Jean Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat t�lephone : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639) t�lecopieur : (418) 835-6657 courrier �lectronique: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In God we trust all others must bring data" W. Edwards Deming ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
