Hi Alex,
what if you run devtools::install_github(build_vignettes = TRUE) on your students computer? See ?devtools::install Best, Sven > On 20. Apr 2017, at 15:09, Alexandre Courtiol <alexandre.court...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am using a package for teaching: > my slides are html vignettes, and it is convenient for students to control > which packages they must install, provide code and datasets. > > As I am often editing the package live during the course, it would be great > if I could just push to github and that the student would just have to run > a devtools::install_github() to get my updated vignettes. I would rather > not to have to build the package before pushing to save time. > > The issues is that I do not want to build the vignettes on install as they > are very slow to build. On my computer however it is quick because I have > cached the knitr chunks output. So I was hoping to just have to run > devtools::build_vignettes() on my machine before pushing the files thereby > created (./inst/doc) and that the student could just > devtools::install_github(). > > I cannot make this work: no vignettes are found after install. When I do > check the repository beeing installed on their computers, the html, Rmd and > R files corresponding to the vignettes are present in ./doc, so it is not > an issue of having the wrong .gitgnore configuration. > > I have read about many vignettes related issues on the net, but I did not > find something dealing with this precise issue. > > PS: I know about the R.rsp hack, but I would prefer to find a solution more > direct. > > Best, > > Alex > > > > > -- > Alexandre Courtiol > > http://sites.google.com/site/alexandrecourtiol/home > > *"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"*, R. Feynman > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
