You are doing a lot of things that are non-standard, so I doubt if
anyone is going to be able to help you without access to a simple
reproducible example of a package that does what you do. Try to cut out
as much as you can to make it minimal. For example,
devtools::document() (indeed, most of your code) is probably irrelevant
to your problem with vignettes, but things like your .Rbuildignore file
are not.
Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2020 11:22 a.m., Alexandre Courtiol wrote:
Dear all,
I am struggling with an issue related to static vignettes: they work, but
only when present in double in the tarball -- in the folder inst/doc and
vignettes; see below for details.
Details:
I am pre-compiling heavy vignettes thanks to the vignette builder R.rsp.
So basically, I have PDF files which I want the package to use as Vignettes.
For this, I have the following in my Description file:
VignetteBuilder: R.rsp
I am organising the vignette by hand using a Makefile (because this is the
only way that has proven 100% reliable to me, across a variety of
situations).
In my Makefile, I have something like:
build: clean
mkdir -p inst/doc
mkdir vignettes
-cp sources_vignettes/*/*.pdf* vignettes
Rscript -e "tools::compactPDF(paths = 'vignettes', gs_quality =
'printer')"
cp vignettes/*.pdf* inst/doc
Rscript -e "devtools::document()"
mkdir inst/extdata/sources_vignettes
cp sources_vignettes/*/*.Rnw inst/extdata/sources_vignettes
Rscript -e "devtools::build(vignettes = FALSE)"
That works fine, the vignettes show up using browseVignettes() after
installing the package the normal way.
However, after building, the tar.gz contains each pdf corresponding to a
vignette twice: once in vignettes and once in inst/doc (which is obvious,
when reading the Makefile).
From the reading of "Writing R Extensions" and other material, I cannot
tell if that is a must or not, but I hope it is not since I wish to avoid
that (my pdfs are large even once compressed).
My problem is that when I delete either inst/doc or vignette just before
calling the last command of the Makefile (Rscript -e
"devtools::build(vignettes = FALSE)"), then browseVignettes() does not find
the vignettes after a normal installation.
If anyone knows of some _complete_ documentation about the ever troublesome
topic of vignettes building in R, I would be very grateful too...
Many thanks!
Alex
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