[R] Authoring a book

[Tom Backer Johnsen]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 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.

A very different approach.  SVN is not something I am aquainted with, 
but should be worth looking into.  As to LaTex, the closest I have 
worked with is Lyx.

The problem is, there are two other authors I have to persuade to 
learn new tools.  So, it might be too complex.

Tom

> 


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