Thanks for the scripts, Berend. With one or two amendments they ran
successfully (my compilers have -4.2 attached to their names). But it
did seem rather a lot of work (on the part of my computer). After
Duncan's response, I decided it might be easier to write an R script
using download.file to get them from CRAN. My R is much better than my
shell script.
Ruth
On 03/02/2012 11:54, Berend Hasselman wrote:
On 03-02-2012, at 12:37, Ruth Ripley wrote:
I prefer Adobe reader's directory search. But I don't have the up-to-date set
of pdf manuals on my computer. I can do an easy global search of the html
manuals with text wrangler but I then have to read html. I am thinking I will
have to start building my own R just to get the ability to build the manual
pdf's.
I don't think you have to do that. I also like using the pdf manuals for
browsing/searching/...
I recently built the pdf manuals for R-2.14.1. I have attached two scripts that
did it for me.
The setup script prepares the R build system.
The make-R-pdf script just makes the pdf manuals and copies them to the current
directory.
Both these scripts should placed in the directory where you have unpacked R
sources (R-2.14.1.tar.gz).
Comments and improvements welcome.
Berend
Ruth
On 03/02/2012 01:14, David Winsemius wrote:
On Feb 2, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Ruth Ripley wrote:
Dear list,
Would it be possible to include the pdf versions of the R manuals in
the CRAN mac R install? I find them easier to global search than html
ones. (I am used to having them on Windows.)
I generally copy the link to the html and paste them into my browser.
The search in the default GUI-invoked help panel doesn't handle
punctuation or revisions to searches at all well. The text get
overwritten in the bottom entry slot and I don't think the
search-revisions actually occur.
Regards,
Ruth
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