OK - the problem seemed (in part) to be the lack of Rd.sty, which is addressed below.
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/miktex.html When I followed the instructions on Duncan's site (using 'workaround 4'), things appeared to work. R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf <library/package> creates a directory .Rd2dvi, which contains a file Rd2.pdf. This file contains the 'package description' page (with version, maintainer, & build info), but nothing else (I checked this on several packages, including grDevices). The main error messages I receive appear to be: RHOME: not found cd: cant cd to c/cygdrive/c/Program cp: cannot stat '.Rd2dvi/Rd2.pdf': No such file or directory Oddly (for me), these results are different depending on the package. For example, when I run exactly the same command (R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf <library/packagename> on grDevices, I get the first page, nothing else (and an error message about no man directory found). When I run my package, it does the package name page, plus the first 3 functions, and generates the index, but skips everything else. Same story with several other packages I have installed from CRAN. Even more oddly, results do not seem repeatable. For example, I have the package 'ape' installed. The first time I ran R CMD Rd2dvi -- pdf, I only created the title page in pdf. I deleted the .Rd2dvi directory generated, and repeated. This time, I obtained the title, and the first few functions, but omitting 90% of what should be there. Sorry - I really don't understand what is going on here. ~Dan >>I only get a .dvi manual when running 'check'. > >Yes, 'check' only checks that the latex can be compiled. It is not trying >to create usable output for you: for that use R CMD Rd2dvi. > >E.g. for a PDF manual for package grDevices, use > >R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf .../library/grDevices > >which works for me. Dan Rabosky Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 237 Corson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY14853-2701 USA 607 254 4262 (office) 607 592 4636 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/evb/Graduates_Dan.htm ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
