Printable version of the ESS manual

[Martin Maechler]

Martin Maechler writes:
 > The real reason I didn't answer David Kane's request
 > (I was about to say ``yeah, I can do that quickly if you want''):
 > As I looked again at the ESS (not R!) manual, I realized how badly
 > out-of-date it is, and I think it should rather be whipped into shape
 > before releasing  the nice dvi/ps/pdf version of it (that people really
 > would be tempted to print out and actually read...).

Since, ESS 5.1.19 has been released, with a slightly improved manual,
and several people have asked for a printable version,...
It was easy enough and someone promised bug reports about typos...,
and hence go and crash our http server (:-); you find now both the online
(HTML) version and a two "print" versions (PDF and Compressed PostScript)
at  http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/ .

Note that ESS is an Emacs tool, and real Emacs fans should use Emacs info
(C-h i) and make sure that they have the ESS manual (the doc/ess.info*
files) installed in the Emacs info directory tree! I find that emacs info
(and using "s" for regexp.searching in an info manual) is the most
efficient way of finding things for me.

Apropos typos reporting etc: Please note that all these versions of the ESS
manual are produced from doc/ess.texi (and a few *.texi files included by
ess.texi), and if you really want to help us, you'd send patches against
these *.texi files.

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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