Dan, 4 months ago

@rstats one thing I did find a little frustrating is that there were a handful of pacakges I didn't have installed and rendering kept halting.

Is there an established way to search through a large number of files to find and install packages?

There are about 49 files that likely include pacakges so didn't really want to do it manually - here was my hacky solution

joeroe, 4 months ago

@Dan @rstats The R4DS repository includes a DESCRIPTION file listing the book's dependencies so, assuming that's complete, you can just use devtools::install_deps(). Otherwise, try renv::init(), which searches through the files.

lydz_gibby, 4 months ago

@Dan @rstats I don't quite follow. Do you mean that if I fork the source code, go into the _quarto.yml and change the project type, I can get an ebook instead? If so, I have a lot of books to download. 🤩

Dan, 4 months ago

@lydz_gibby @rstats yep absolutely! Though r4ds rendered as epub won't open in kindle it looks good in my other epub reader.

Advanced R on the other hand, I recently rendered to epub with book down and opens in kindle without any mucking about.

I think it's to do with CSS but haven't tried too hard to figure out

lydz_gibby, 4 months ago

@Dan @rstats awesome. Thank you!