On 27.02.2010 03:27, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
G'day Uwe,
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:03:10 +0100
Uwe Ligges wrote:
R CMD check executes the R code in the vignettes and checks if that
works, and it checks if the PDFs are available. It does not check if
it can build the vignettes, because that is o
G'day Uwe,
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:03:10 +0100
Uwe Ligges wrote:
> R CMD check executes the R code in the vignettes and checks if that
> works, and it checks if the PDFs are available. It does not check if
> it can build the vignettes, because that is only necessary on the
> maintainer's machin
R CMD check executes the R code in the vignettes and checks if that
works, and it checks if the PDFs are available. It does not check if it
can build the vignettes, because that is only necessary on the
maintainer's machine since the PDFs are shipped with the (built) source
package.
Best,
U
(forwarding to R-devel)
Prof. Ripley
Thanks a lot for the help.
I greatly appreciate the clarification that R does indeed install the
package during the build process. I must have been confused. The
error is now fixed and was not related to my (false) claim that R
could not locate a dataset in
Based on some testing it seems to me that if I have a package with
a dataset in /data
a Sweave vignette in inst/doc (but no associated pdf file)
the vignette loads the data in /data through
data(dataset)
and I do a
R CMD build
R will try to build the pdf version of the vignette, but wi
