Dear Mick, Note that both knitr and rmarkdown are listed under Suggests: both are required to compile the vignette. Installing rmarkdown should solve the problem. If not, please provide more information. OS, R version, digest version, ...
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2016-05-03 20:10 GMT+02:00 Mick Jordan <mick.jor...@oracle.com>: > I need some help understanding a problem running the tests on the 'digest' > package. Initially, I got the message that the 'knitr' package was needed to > run vignettes: > > Running vignettes for package ‘digest’ > Error in loadVignetteBuilder(vigns$pkgdir) : > vignette builder 'knitr' not found > > So I installed the knitr package and all its dependents (‘mime’, ‘stringi’, > ‘magrittr’, ‘evaluate’, ‘formatR’, ‘highr’, ‘markdown’, ‘stringr’, ‘yaml’) . > Now I get some different warnings: > > Running vignettes for package ‘digest’ > Running ‘sha1.Rmd’ > Warning messages: > 1: In readLines(if (is.character(input2)) { : > cannot open file 'sha1.Rmd': No such file or directory > 2: In engine$weave(file, quiet = TRUE, encoding = enc) : > The vignette engine knitr::rmarkdown is not available, because the > rmarkdown package is not installed. Please install it. > 3: In readLines(con) : > cannot open file 'sha1.Rmd': No such file or directory > > So why is sha1.Rmd missing? And why is it complaining about rmarkdown? Or > more precisely why did it not install it as a dependent? It installed plain > markdown. > > Mick Jordan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel