To maintain my R site, I'm trying to install html help files only, but
also keep track of the version (with DESCRIPTION). I have the
following bash script, which works except for 00Index.html. That is
not a huge problem because the help files are still searchable, but
I'd like to fix it.
A long time ago I asked the same question, and Brian Ripley said to
use --index as an option to build-help.pl, but that isn't an option
anymore. It seems that the 00Index.html file is built from the
CONTENTS file, but I can't find how to construct that either. Here's
the script so far. It works pretty much. (I'm not sure what happens
if the pdf vignettes don't exist already: so far they have all existed
and it works for those. And the last line doesn't work, so I just
install a package and then the indices get rebuilt.)
#!/bin/bash
# makes indexable help files for R packages, including pdf vignettes
# usage inst.bat "[files]"
for PKG in `ls $1`
do
echo $PKG
tar xfz $PKG
PK=`echo $PKG | /bin/sed -e 's/.tar.gz//' | cut -d"_" -f1`
echo $PK
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/R/library/$PK
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/R/library/$PK/html
# copy description (which contains version number) and CONTENTS (for index)
cp $PK/DESCRIPTION /usr/lib/R/library/$PK
# build and move vignettes if present
if [ -d $PK/inst/doc ]; then
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/R/library/$PK/doc
R CMD buildVignettes\($PK,$PK\)
cp $PK/inst/doc/* /usr/lib/R/library/$PK/doc
fi
# make html files
R CMD perl /usr/share/R/perl/build-help.pl --html /home/baron/$PK
/usr/lib/R/library
rm -rf $PK
done
# rebuild indices (doesn't work)
R CMD make.packages.html
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