I read
For printing \dontrun should be a no-op.
to mean that it should produce no output, but I suspect you meant you
wanted it to pass its argument through verbatim.
If we were continuing with the Rdconv.pm I would be suggesting adding
some markup for that job (e.g. \verbdontrun), but as
You've answered my question 2 about why the manual was in odd order
> R CMD check was more of a check of the latex version of the files, not
> the final manual.
I was looking at the result of R CMD check, and it was in random order
(perhaps file date?), not just a different collation choice. Very