On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Perry de Valpine <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear R-devel, > > I am putting together a package vignette for the first time (R 2.8.1, > OS X) and had some bumps from section 1.4 ("Writing package > vignettes") of the "Writing R Extensions" document. Here are > suggestions to clean up a few small documentation bugs (I think) and > omissions. This is assuming that R is performing as intended and the > only gaps are in the documentation, not vice-versa. > > The statement "Pointers from package help indices to the installed > documents are automatically created" made me think I could put a pdf > in inst/doc and it would automatically be treated as a vignette. When > I did R CMD BUILD and R CMD INSTALL, an index.html was created in > inst/doc (and my pdf was copied there) but it stated there are no > vignettes for this package, and R indeed could not find the vignette. > How about stating that index.html is needed and sticking in an example? > I eventually figured it out by looking at the grid package source.
Could you please clarify this comment. I could not find an index.html file in the grid package source (R revision 47606 synced today): C:\\R\src\library\grid>dir/s index.html File Not Found ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
