Dear Alex, Another idea is to use pkgdown (http://pkgdown.r-lib.org) to convert all the documentation of your package (include the vignettes) into a website. Then you make that available to your students, e.g. through github pages.
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2018-04-19 18:33 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Courtiol <alexandre.court...@gmail.com>: > Thanks a lot Thierry, I was happy to discover and implement a "drat" > installation workflow. > Unfortunately it did not solve the issue (but I will stick to drat). > Also, I checked the sessionInfo() and could not find any package version > discriminating accurately between computers that shows vignettes from those > who do not. > Only Windows computer have the issue but this proves nothing (and other > computers with the same OS version are fine). > Goergi, I did not yet retried outside RStudio (I am trying not to waste too > much time at the beginning of each course... > I wish I could hijack a problematic laptop but they don't let me do it as > they need them). > ++ > Alex > > > On 17 April 2018 at 10:42, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> > wrote: >> >> Dear Alex, >> >> Have a look at drat >> (http://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat/DratForPackageAuthors.html). This >> makes it easier to distribute prepackaged R packages (including When >> you uploaded a new version, then the student would only have to do >> drat::addRepo("your_repo") and then install.pakages("LM2GLMM") or >> update.packages() >> >> Best regards, >> >> ir. Thierry Onkelinx >> Statisticus / Statistician >> >> Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders >> INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE >> AND FOREST >> Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance >> thierry.onkel...@inbo.be >> Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel >> www.inbo.be >> >> >> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no >> more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be >> able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher >> The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner >> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does >> not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body >> of data. ~ John Tukey >> >> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >> >> >> >> >> 2018-04-16 19:38 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Courtiol >> <alexandre.court...@gmail.com>: >> > Re, >> > >> > On 16 April 2018 at 17:35, Georgi Boshnakov < >> > georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> The problem is indeed difficult to debug but there are things that can >> >> be >> >> done to narrow it down. >> >> >> >> 1. Are there 1/3 unlucky computers fixed? (I.e does the problem occur >> >> always on the same computers) Also, do you really mean computer or >> >> user? >> >> >> > >> > Yes, I mean computer, not user. >> > >> >> >> >> 2. Are the students working under R studio? If so, does the same >> >> problem >> >> appear if the same procedure is run outside R studio. >> >> >> > >> > I will try tomorrow (but from memory I think the answer will be yes). >> > >> >> >> >> 3. Further to 2., You mention development mode - do (some) students >> >> also >> >> have a copy of your repository? This may be aproblem if they don't >> >> update >> >> it too. >> >> >> > >> > No, only me has the devel version. >> > >> >> >> >> 4. What happens if R is restarted? >> > >> > >> > I will try tomorrow (but I think the answer will be nothing). >> > >> > >> >> 5. It may be worth checking .Rprofle and similar for the concerned >> >> computers (or users, see 1.) >> >> >> > >> > I will try as well but most had a fresh install and did not mess with >> > settings. >> > >> >> >> >> Hope this is of some help. >> >> >> > >> > I will look at all this and also gather the session infos as Ben >> > suggested. >> > I think I know how to proceed to get to the bottom of that, but I was >> > just >> > hoping that the problem was already well known and the answer as well... >> > If it is for anyone, please reply. Otherwise, I will investigate. >> > Thanks to everyone. >> > Alex >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Georgi Boshnakov >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> >> From: R-package-devel [r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] on behalf >> >> of Alexandre Courtiol [alexandre.court...@gmail.com] >> >> Sent: 16 April 2018 14:40 >> >> To: List r-package-devel >> >> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] vignette via devtools: sometimes found, >> >> sometimes >> >> not (same package) >> >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am teaching a class and for that I created a R package that mostly >> >> contains vignettes (the slides of the course). >> >> I host the package on GitHub because I want the students to download >> >> every >> >> day the latest version of the package. >> >> Building the vignettes takes a couple of hours so I pre-build the >> >> vignettes >> >> using devtools::build_vignettes before pushing my updates to GitHub. >> >> The student install the package using >> >> devtools::install_github("courtiol/LM2GLMM"). >> >> Then, they do library(LM2GLMM) and browseVignettes(package = >> >> "LM2GLMM")... >> >> >> >> ... and that works on 2/3 of the computers, for the others it says >> >> vignettes not found. >> >> >> >> Any idea why and what can I do to make it 100% success? >> >> Of course on my laptop it works, so I cannot investigate. >> >> Also, since they all use different versions of R, devtools or OS... I >> >> would >> >> like to know the one thing that must be changed if it comes from that >> >> (but >> >> I am not sure it does). >> >> >> >> I have added a back up function that works for the 1/3 of unfortunate >> >> students: >> >> >> >> get_vignettes <- function() { >> >> utils::browseURL(paste0(find.package("LM2GLMM"), "/doc/")) ## for >> >> installed >> >> utils::browseURL(paste0(find.package("LM2GLMM"), "/inst/doc/")) ## >> >> for >> >> development >> >> return(invisible(NULL)) >> >> } >> >> >> >> This functions opens de vignette folder and that shows that all the >> >> students actually have the html files installed correctly. But it is >> >> ugly >> >> because then they have to find the good html file and so forth, so I >> >> would >> >> rather have a better solution. >> >> >> >> Many thanks, >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Alexandre Courtiol >> > >> > http://sites.google.com/site/alexandrecourtiol/home >> > >> > *"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"*, R. 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