Hadley, have you tried producing the book in other electronic formats (other than pdf)? such as epub? I tried and ended up with a file that worked, but all the example code was missing (which defeats the convenience of having it on an ebook reader), I did not check if everything else was there or not.
thanks, On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, folks. I've got a sort of coupon that would allow me to get a >> copy of "Advanced R" by Hadley Wickham at no cost. OTOH, I've already >> cloned the github repository, and having the "live" Rmd files (or in >> this case, rmd files) is enormously more useful to me than having any >> form of electronic or paper format. > > I presume you mean https://github.com/hadley/adv-r (no need to be > secretive about it ;) > >> The only reason I can think of for getting, say, a PDF version of the >> book is that corrected versions of such books are sometimes (always?) >> made available for free if you've already got the PDF version of the >> book. (I know O'Reilly does this.) > > The pdf version of the book is made from the files in that repo, so I > don't see any advantage there. (You can build the pdf yourself if you > spend a few minutes looking for the right file ;) > >> But if the github version is going to continue to exist, be updated, >> and be generally available, that's even better. IS it going to exist, >> be updated, and be generally available? Any thoughts? > > The github version _is_ the authoritative version of the book (and in > some sense it's already slightly better than the book, since a number > of minor typos have been fixed since the book was published). C&H is > mostly print on demand, so later printings of the book are likely to > pick up the improvements, although there is still some additional > human checking in the process, so it'll only get updated every 6 > months or so. > > The repo and http://adv-r.had.co.nz will continue to exist for the > foreseeable future. > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
