What R CMD build (and check) does is to call tools::buildVignettes.
That has been true for a while, and buildVignettes() returns if no vignettes are found. The docs are out-of-date.

My view is that you are misusing inst/doc: it is intended *only* for files which are going to be installed and hence report.tex should not really be there. So you should be doing this in another source directory and copying report.pdf to inst/doc. Use configure to arrange this.

Shortly vignettes to be built will be moved out of inst/doc.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

Hi,

in Section 'Writing package vignettes' of 'Writing R Extensions' it says:

"Whenever a Makefile is found, then R CMD build will try to run make
after the Sweave runs, so PDF manuals can be created from arbitrary
source formats (plain LaTeX files, ...). [...] Note that the make step
is executed even if there are no files in Sweave format, [...]".

In my package, inst/doc/ file contains two files: Makefile, and
report.tex.  However, when running 'Rcmd build' on Windows with R
v2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-27 r55091) I can only get 'make' to run
(process inst/doc/Makefile) if I add a inst/doc/dummy.Rnw file,
otherwise nothing happens.  My Makefile contains:

all: pdf

pdf: report.tex
        texi2dvi --pdf report.tex

clean:
        rm dummy.Rnw dummy.tex
        rm *.aux *.log *.toc

Is it really necessary to add dummy.Rnw?  Am I missing something?

/Henrik

sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-27 r55091)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.13.0

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