[R] Authoring a book

[Peter Dalgaard]

Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> writes:

> Me and some colleagues are planning to write a textbook together
> ("Statistics using R") where the target audience for the book is
> psychologists and students of psychology.
> 
> We thought that it might be a good idea to use a Wiki when writing the
> text.  Is that a good idea?  Does anybody have any experience in that
> direction?  What alternatives are there?
> 
> The tool (Wiki) would have to be able to handle tables and
> mathematical formulas in some manner, and of course, some mechanism to
> export the contents to a word processor in the final stages.
> 
> I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL.

SVN and LaTeX would be my tools of choice.

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