Thanks a lot! Sorry for cross-posting, but I did it intentially because I tend to believe Barry Rowlingson (Why R-help Must Die!), and I will summarize the answers here later to StackOverflow.
Another user also told me this worked for 2.13.1, but not later versions. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 19:36 -0500, Yihui Xie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have spent a few hours on the R-exts manual and the documentation of >> parse_Rd() (as well as the PDF document in the references), but I >> still have not figured out what results=rd means. I thought I could >> use an R code fragment to create an Rd fragment dynamically. Here is >> an example, in which I was expected the output to be a describe list >> <DL> in HTML, but it turns out not to be true. > > Perhaps best not to cross post to several internet resources at once. I > replied to the same Q on StackOverflow: > > http://stackoverflow.com/q/7788628/429846 > > Suffice it to say that your example works for me with 2.13.1 (still need > to compile 2.13.2 on my workstation). I left some additional comments > and examples, which might help understand this. I had trouble when I > first started playing this and didn't pursue further, but I think I am > starting to understand how to use this now after taking a look when I > tried to answer your Q. > > G > >> (I was actually building a package with Rd's containing \Sexpr{} >> instead of really using Rd2HTML(); the content was not rendered after >> I run R CMD build.) >> >> des <- "\\describe{\\item{def}{ghi}}" >> con <- textConnection(c("\\title{abc}\\name{abc}", >> "\\details{\\Sexpr[results=rd,stage=build]{des}}")) >> z <- parse_Rd(con) >> Rd2HTML(z, stages = "build") >> close(con) >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> >> <html><head><title>R: abc</title> >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> >> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css"> >> </head><body> >> >> <table width="100%" summary="page for abc"><tr><td>abc</td><td >> align="right">R Documentation</td></tr></table> >> >> <h2>abc</h2> >> >> <h3>Details</h3> >> >> <p>defghi</p> >> >> >> </body></html> >> >> >> > sessionInfo() >> R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods >> [8] base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] devtools_0.4 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] RCurl_1.6-10 >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 > ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 > Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk > Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
