On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:41 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote: > 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. > > <snip /> > To create the PDF file from the Rd file use R CMD Rd2dvi, and dvipdf.
You can do this directly without dvipdf: R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf name_of_Rd_file.Rd G > > ds -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC & ENSIS, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
