On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Jari Oksanen <jari.oksa...@oulu.fi> wrote: > Henrik, > On 14/10/2013, at 00:35 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > >> In R 3.1.0 (~April 2014), support for vignettes in inst/doc/ will go >> away (and probably much sooner for CRAN submission), e.g. >> >> I've been sticking with inst/doc/ for backward compatible reasons so >> that I can use a "fallback" inst/doc/Makefile for building >> *non*-Sweave vignettes also under R 2.15.x. AFAIK, it is not >> possible to put a Makefile under vignettes/, i.e. it is not possible >> to build non-Sweave vignette under vignettes/. >> > > You can have Makefile in vignettes, and at the moment this even passes CRAN > tests. You may also need to have a vignettes/.install_extras file to move the > produced non-vignettes files to their final packaged location. > > You still get warnings of unused, pointless and misleading files with R > 2.15.3, because R 3.0.2 packaging process makes files that R 2.15.3 regards > as pointless and misleading. The CRAN policy seems to be to ignore those > warnings. R is not backward compatible with herself, and I don't see much > that a package author could do to work around this (apart from forking the > package).
Thank you Jari, I'll look into this. Do you know of/have a package that does this that I can peek into? /Henrik > > Cheers, Jari O. > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
