We have a winner! (By bending the rules.)
On 10 January 2019 at 16:44, Kyle Baron wrote:
| Will this work for you?
|
| I had to stash the working directory (when R CMD build is run) in an
| environment variable via ~/.R/build.Renviron`
|
| $ cat ~/.R/build.Renviron
| OLDWD=${PWD}
That is less unconditional that I desired, but it works.
| But a Makefile tucked in vignettes directory will run and the two
| files will be there in the built package. For me, I couldn't get
| OLDPWD so I saved it as OLDWD instead
|
| $ tree vignettes/
| vignettes/
| ├── Makefile
| └── Untitled.Rmd
|
| $ more vignettes/Makefile
|
| all:
| echo ${OLDWD} > ../inst/old.txt
| echo ${PWD} > ../inst/current.txt
Then 'current.txt' is as before a temporary directory per R's build
conventions, but old.txt does indeed contain the source directory.
Close enought :)
Thanks very much for passing that creative hack along!
Dirk
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