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.) Regards, Ruth
finding things in R manuals
10 messages · David Winsemius, Berend Hasselman, Duncan Murdoch +3 more
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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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. 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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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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: setup-R-build-i386.sh Type: application/octet-stream Size: 501 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/attachments/20120203/e77f8629/attachment.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: make-R-pdf.sh Type: application/octet-stream Size: 223 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/attachments/20120203/e77f8629/attachment-0001.obj> -------------- next part --------------
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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On 12-02-03 6:37 AM, 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.
They are also available for download from CRAN, though you won't get the
Mac OSX FAQ. See the "Documentation" link on the left.
I forget whether there's a way to add items to the menu, but you can
certainly write a function to pick one and open it, e.g.
doc <- function(manual=file.choose()) {
system(paste('open', manual))
}
Duncan Murdoch
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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If you have multiple versions of R installed it is really convenient that they contain the appropriate manuals. I have an archive back to 2.0.0 (and a few before) that I consult surprisingly often. Our dept builds for Linux have always done 'make install install-pdf', and I think the argument that binary distributions of R should contain all the useful pieces is strong now space does not matter. The Windows team have decided to simplify their installer for 2.15.0 and always install all the documentation and tests, so the only choices will be 32-bit, 64-bit or both.
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, 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
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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
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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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.)
Since we are in the phase of adding things to the distribution anyway it is certainly trivial to add the pdf manuals so I shall do that. Personally, I prefer nightly builds of the R-devel manuals in html, so I use http://r.research.att.com/man/ Thanks, Simon
Many thanks, Simon. Also to the other respondents for their suggestions. The link for the nightly builds will also be useful, once I have found out which manual I need by searching the pdf's. Ruth
On 03/02/2012 14:33, Simon Urbanek 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.)
Since we are in the phase of adding things to the distribution anyway it is certainly trivial to add the pdf manuals so I shall do that. Personally, I prefer nightly builds of the R-devel manuals in html, so I use http://r.research.att.com/man/ Thanks, Simon
Ruth M. Ripley, Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk Dept. of Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/ University of Oxford, Tel: 01865 282857 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: 01865 272595
On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Ruth Ripley wrote:
Many thanks, Simon. Also to the other respondents for their suggestions. The link for the nightly builds will also be useful, once I have found out which manual I need by searching the pdf's.
Sure, you're welcome. While I'm thinking about this, I have also added the nightly PDF manuals to the webpage as well as the Mac FAQ (in html). Best, Simon
On 03/02/2012 14:33, Simon Urbanek 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.)
Since we are in the phase of adding things to the distribution anyway it is certainly trivial to add the pdf manuals so I shall do that. Personally, I prefer nightly builds of the R-devel manuals in html, so I use http://r.research.att.com/man/ Thanks, Simon
-- Ruth M. Ripley, Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk Dept. of Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/ University of Oxford, Tel: 01865 282857 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: 01865 272595