Heh. Thanks, Ista, for your diplomatically-phrased suggestion :-) In fact, I *did* read the "vignettes" section of the Extensions manual, but evidently not closely enough.
Upon further review, I see that one can use ".../vignettes/.install_extras" to list additional files that should be copied to ".../inst/doc/". I tried that, and it seems to work, but the files from .install_extras are not listed as vignettes. Hence, this seems like a convenient way to distribute the additional files. I.e., we would be asking people to use "devtools::install_github" to get the packages, but I still don't see how to make the additional files readily available to the end user. -- Mike On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Did you read the relevant section of the official "Writing R > Extensions" manual? If so, what about the instructions provided there > do you find lacking? > > Best, > Ista > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Michael Hannon > <jmhannon.ucda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Greetings. The group that I work with has just started using the approach >> outlined in Karl Broman's handy primer: >> >> http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/vignettes.html >> >> to create vignettes for a couple of R packages. >> >> This works fine as long as we have a current Rmd version of the vignette. >> But >> we have some old PDF documents that we'd like to include as vignettes as >> well. >> I'd like to know if there's a way to include such PDF files as vignettes. >> >> We *do* have the source files for the PDF files in question, but it would be >> tedious to convert those source files to Rmd format. >> >> My first thought was simply to add the PDF files to the .../vignettes >> subdirectory and run the devtools::build_vignettes() function (mentioned in >> the Broman tutorial), but that doesn't work. I.e., the PDF files don't >> appear >> in the list of vignettes for the package. >> >> And after running devtools::build_vignettes I see that there's a lot of >> additional stuff in: >> >> ...lib/R/site-library/<package_name>/... >> >> so I don't see any obvious way to "fool" R into using the PDF files that >> haven't gone through the whole knitr/rmarkdown process. (Not to mention that >> such an approach would be fragile at best.) >> >> Suggestions welcome. Thanks. >> >> -- Mike >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
