Hi, Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic ``R Newsletter'' beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a mixture of articles describing 1) new features in R itself 2) contributed add-on packages 3) nice applications 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R 5) or ... OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you simply have a nice application using R. The idea is to have the newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than welcome! The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file should be fine as contribution. Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new year! Best, Fritz Leisch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles
9 messages · Friedrich Leisch, Peter Dalgaard, Timothy H. Keitt, +4 more
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body? Regards Yves Gauvreau
-----Message d'origine----- De : owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Friedrich Leisch Envoye : Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:15 PM A : r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch Objet : [Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles Hi, Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic ``R Newsletter'' beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a mixture of articles describing 1) new features in R itself 2) contributed add-on packages 3) nice applications 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R 5) or ... OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you simply have a nice application using R. The idea is to have the newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than welcome! The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file should be fine as contribution. Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new year! Best, Fritz Leisch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. -.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _._._._._._._
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"Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> writes:
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body?
Not really, dealing with MS Word would be a nightmare, and LaTeX is
just about the only format with decent treatment of mathematics.
However, I'm pretty sure that plain ascii would also be acceptable for
simple articles. On the other hand, why should the editors have the
trouble of putting all code excerpts in \begin{verbatim} ..
\end{verbatim} constructs, etc.?
Perhaps one could define a simplified LaTeX markup similar to .Rd.
Or maybe just point people towards MiKTeX and give them a crash course
in LaTeX? For plain text, the format is really quite simple.
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You could use Lyx (www.lyx.org). It exports (human readable) latex. Tim
Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
"Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> writes:
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body?
Not really, dealing with MS Word would be a nightmare, and LaTeX is
just about the only format with decent treatment of mathematics.
However, I'm pretty sure that plain ascii would also be acceptable for
simple articles. On the other hand, why should the editors have the
trouble of putting all code excerpts in \begin{verbatim} ..
\end{verbatim} constructs, etc.?
Perhaps one could define a simplified LaTeX markup similar to .Rd.
Or maybe just point people towards MiKTeX and give them a crash course
in LaTeX? For plain text, the format is really quite simple.
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On 21 Dec 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
"Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> writes:
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body?
Not really, dealing with MS Word would be a nightmare, and LaTeX is just about the only format with decent treatment of mathematics.
FWIW, at least one of the equation setting add-ons for WORD (MathType, see http://www.mathtype.com ) has TeX as its engine. It will optionally provide (La)TeX on the clipboard for pasting into non-WORD docs. So a WORD user could provide ascii for the text and (La)TeX for equations.
However, I'm pretty sure that plain ascii would also be acceptable for
simple articles. On the other hand, why should the editors have the
trouble of putting all code excerpts in \begin{verbatim} ..
\end{verbatim} constructs, etc.?
Perhaps one could define a simplified LaTeX markup similar to .Rd.
Or maybe just point people towards MiKTeX and give them a crash course
in LaTeX? For plain text, the format is really quite simple.
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Hi,
where should we make submissions? To you directly?
Nicholas
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N----C C==O Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Friedrich Leisch wrote:
Hi, Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic ``R Newsletter'' beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a mixture of articles describing 1) new features in R itself 2) contributed add-on packages 3) nice applications 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R 5) or ... OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you simply have a nice application using R. The idea is to have the newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than welcome! The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file should be fine as contribution. Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new year! Best, Fritz Leisch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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Ok, I understand the problematic and I have no problems with it. The next question that comes to mind is: Is there some Latex software or something that one could use to produce Latex documents on a Windows platform? Although I did it in the past, I would prefer not to install Linux. I'm not a guru of Emacs but I'm using it quite a lot these days. Could there be something that works with Emacs and with which I could produce Latex docs maybe? BTW, I was sincere about the idea of this Newsletter. I look forward reading it. Regards Yves Gauvreau
-----Message d'origine----- De : pd@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk [mailto:pd@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk]De la part de Peter Dalgaard BSA Envoye : Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:28 PM A : Yves Gauvreau Cc : Friedrich Leisch; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch Objet : Re: [Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles "Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> writes:
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the
Latex format
you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user,
Latex is as bad
news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body?
Not really, dealing with MS Word would be a nightmare, and LaTeX is
just about the only format with decent treatment of mathematics.
However, I'm pretty sure that plain ascii would also be acceptable for
simple articles. On the other hand, why should the editors have the
trouble of putting all code excerpts in \begin{verbatim} ..
\end{verbatim} constructs, etc.?
Perhaps one could define a simplified LaTeX markup similar to .Rd.
Or maybe just point people towards MiKTeX and give them a crash course
in LaTeX? For plain text, the format is really quite simple.
--
O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3
c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N
(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:59:30 -0500, you wrote:
Ok, I understand the problematic and I have no problems with it. The next question that comes to mind is: Is there some Latex software or something that one could use to produce Latex documents on a Windows platform?
Latex is the language that you type; a processor converts it into things that will print (in the old days, .dvi files; now .ps or .pdf or .html files too). If you really mean you want a program to produce the Latex for you, there are several choices: Mathematica can output Latex, there used to be a package called Scientific Word that would do the same. One thing to watch out for is that these programs produce Latex that might not be usable by anyone else, since they rely on special macros that not everyone has. (This was my experience with SW several years ago, I've never used these facilities in Mathematica.) There is an editor called WinEdt that has a number of facilities built-in to help in typing Latex files. If you meant you want to process Latex files, Brian Ripley mentioned two: Miktex and fptex. I've recently switched to Miktex and it's fine; I don't have experience with fptex. Miktex isn't completely trivial to install, but it's much better than some of the older distributions (which required you to set up a long list of environment variables, and put files in the right places, etc.). You can download Miktex or fptex from http://www.ctan.org/. I don't know which files you need to get; someone else did it for me. Duncan Murdoch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi,
But lyx on windows is a nightmare to install, is heavily dependent on
cygwyin and i think only works on NT. So doesn't really help M$ worst
users.
Nicholas
CH3
|
N Nicholas Lewin-Koh
/ \ Dept of Statistics
N----C C==O Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
|| || | Iowa State University
|| || | Ames, IA 50011
CH C N--CH3 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nlewin
\ / \ / nlewin@iastate.edu
N C
| || Currently
CH3 O Graphics Lab
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
The Real Part of Coffee kohnicho@comp.nus.edu.sg
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Timothy H. Keitt, wrote:
You could use Lyx (www.lyx.org). It exports (human readable) latex. Tim Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
"Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> writes:
This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an alternative to please every body?
Not really, dealing with MS Word would be a nightmare, and LaTeX is
just about the only format with decent treatment of mathematics.
However, I'm pretty sure that plain ascii would also be acceptable for
simple articles. On the other hand, why should the editors have the
trouble of putting all code excerpts in \begin{verbatim} ..
\end{verbatim} constructs, etc.?
Perhaps one could define a simplified LaTeX markup similar to .Rd.
Or maybe just point people towards MiKTeX and give them a crash course
in LaTeX? For plain text, the format is really quite simple.
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