Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/7/2006 8:51 AM, Agner Fog wrote:
>
>> I am building a package for various noncentral hypergeometric distributions.
>>
>> I want to include some heavy mathematical formulas. It appears that the
>> build and INSTALL commands produce only .chm files and not .pdf files
>> from my .Rd files under Windows. This means that it cannot show
>> complicated mathematical formulas.
>>
>> The solution might be to include a .pdf file as a vignette. I tried
>> that, but I can't find any way to link to the .pdf file or access it
>> from any of the help facilities. The .pdf file is useless if the user
>> can't find it.
>>
>
> Yes, that's a major problem in the current R help system. You can give
> the user code that would work to show the vignette, but there's no way
> to create a live link to it.
>
The demo system can be used to compensate for limitations of the help
system.
You can display PDF files from any package subdirectory using a demo file
like this (named demo/ReadPkgDoc.R, and documented in demo/00Index):
# ReadPkgDoc.R -- Displays a PDF file as a demo
#
isWindows <- (Sys.info()['sysname'] == 'Windows')
file <- system.file("doc", "PkgManual.pdf", package="PkgName")
if(isWindows) { # Windows automatically finds executable based on file type.
system(paste("CMD /C ", file, "\n"))
} else { # Change this to use path to Adobe reader if desired.
system(paste("xpdf ", file, "\n"))
}
To create the PDF file from the Rd file use R CMD Rd2dvi, and dvipdf.
ds
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