Software to Support StatDocs



To use the StatDocs examples, you will need to the following software:
R
R can be downloaded from The Comprehensive R Archive Network. You will need the latest version for the plug-ins.

 
IDynDocs
This R package should be available by March 2008. It depends on the R packages: XML and Sxslt.

 
XML
This R package parses and writes XML.

 
Sxslt
This R package transforms XML via xsltproc.

 
xsltproc
The Sxslt package uses the xslt processor available in libxml. libxml comes installed on Mac OS X.

 
RDocbook
This schema adds on to the DocBook schema for processing statistical results. It is not yet available.

 

The above software is all that is required to create dynamic documents. To create interactive documents, the following software is also required.

RwxWidgets
This R package is a wxWidgets plug-in for R. It currently works on linux and Mac OS 10.4 and higher.

 
wxWidgets
The wxWidgets GUI toolkit is available on all platforms. To install it on the Mac OS X - use macports at www.macports.org.

 

The following software is needed to display interactive documents in Netscape. This is an alternative approach to using the wxWidgets GUI toolkit.

SNetscape
This is an R package that is a Netscape plug-in for R.

 
SXALAN
The XSL translator with R embedded in it.

 
NetscapeNetscape
You will need version a version of Netscape that supports the Netscape Plugin SDK. We have used 4.72 on Linux and 4.75 on Solaris.

  Last modified: Tue Jan 8 15:12:51 EDT 2008