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Prereqs for building the book #2

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syclik opened this issue Jan 16, 2020 · 6 comments
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Prereqs for building the book #2

syclik opened this issue Jan 16, 2020 · 6 comments

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@syclik
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syclik commented Jan 16, 2020

I needed to install these packages in R:

  1. tufte
  2. reshape

I'm sure I have a bunch already installed.

Where's a good place to put this info? I was originally going to modify the README.md with a ## Before building the book subsection, but then thought it could be useful to have an install.R script or something else programmatic.

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bob-carpenter commented Jan 16, 2020 via email

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blackball commented Jan 21, 2020

I tried to build PDF. A bunch of packages needed to be installed. Pandoc is also required.

It took me more than one hour to do it.

It will be nice if there's an up to date PDF or html version included.

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bob-carpenter commented Jan 21, 2020 via email

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Hi @bob-carpenter , Thanks for your reply.

Was there anything else other than that you needed to install besides the tufte,
bookdown, and reshape R packages? Or other suggestions to make it easier for the next person?

There're also at least 3 other packages installed, but I don't remember since I was just in a quick trial-error-fix mode. Once I succeed, I uninstalled all of them.. I was using Debian 10, installing RStudio will break my current environment, it has some conflicts with my virtualbox installation. I think for most of the people, installing RStudio will be the easiest thing to do.

Everything about markdown and pandoc is painful, not the least of which is the examples-only doc and the mysterious context-specificity of the markdown itself.

Indeed. I recommend Typora, it's much easier to use.

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bob-carpenter commented Jan 22, 2020 via email

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Yes.
Typora is something on top of Pandoc, it provides a WYSWYG interface for writing markdown and math equations. FYI: https://support.typora.io/Math/ .

The installation of Typora is way more simpler, for example, on debian platform, the instructions are https://www.typora.io/#linux .

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