Recently I installed Linux on my desktop. I discovered that R for Linux ships with info files of manuals. R for Windows and Mac only ship with html and pdf files of manuals. Why not include info files in R distributions for Windows and Mac? These are very convenient with emacs. Using pandoc , I tried converting from html to info. The results were nowhere near as good as the originals. Naresh Sent from my iPhone
Info files in Windows and Mac distributions
2 messages · Naresh Gurbuxani, Duncan Murdoch
On 22/01/2023 12:09 p.m., Naresh Gurbuxani wrote:
Recently I installed Linux on my desktop. I discovered that R for Linux ships with info files of manuals. R for Windows and Mac only ship with html and pdf files of manuals. Why not include info files in R distributions for Windows and Mac? These are very convenient with emacs. Using pandoc , I tried converting from html to info. The results were nowhere near as good as the originals.
I think the answer to the question is just that there isn't much demand for them: emacs is mainly used by Linux users these days. But the source to the manuals is available, so presumably you could produce these pretty easily yourself. The R-devel versions are here: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/tree/master/doc/manual I don't know whether the .texi files are sufficient for emacs or whether you need to process them first; I'm not an emacs user. Duncan Murdoch