Re: [Rd] Generate .Rout.save files for vignettes

2012-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/12/2012 17:27, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-12-11 9:41 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: But note that this was added at the request of one package author. We don't generally recommended it, not least as people do not take sufficient care about platform differences and keeping such output up to

Re: [Rd] Generate .Rout.save files for vignettes

2012-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-12-11 9:41 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: But note that this was added at the request of one package author. We don't generally recommended it, not least as people do not take sufficient care about platform differences and keeping such output up to date. So people (including authors) tend t

Re: [Rd] Generate .Rout.save files for vignettes

2012-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
But note that this was added at the request of one package author. We don't generally recommended it, not least as people do not take sufficient care about platform differences and keeping such output up to date. So people (including authors) tend to simply ignore a mass of differences. It

Re: [Rd] Generate .Rout.save files for vignettes

2012-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-12-10 11:45 AM, Benjamin Hofner wrote: I am looking for a way to generate .Rout.save files for vignettes. The manual "Writing R Extensions" states here [1] in item number 20: "If there is a target output file .Rout.save in the vignette source directory, the output from running the code in

[Rd] Generate .Rout.save files for vignettes

2012-12-11 Thread Benjamin Hofner
I am looking for a way to generate .Rout.save files for vignettes. The manual "Writing R Extensions" states here [1] in item number 20: "If there is a target output file .Rout.save in the vignette source directory, the output from running the code in that vignette is compared with the target ou