Yihui, list,
Focusing the behavior of R CMD check, the only reason I have seen put
forward in the discussion for having check tangle and then source as well
as knit/weave the very same vignette is to assist the package maintainer in
debugging R errors vs pdflatex errors. As tangle (and many other
Carl,
I don't really have a horse in this race other than a strong feeling that
whatever check does should be mandatory.
That having been said, I think it can be argued that the fact that check
does this means that it IS in the R package vignette specification that all
vignettes must be such that
Thanks both for the replies.
Duncan, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I am indeed writing a vignette using
Sweave (knitr actually), and I want it to be a vignette. I'm well aware
that I can dodge these tests as you suggest, or through other ways, but I'm
not trying to dodge them. R CMD check is runn
On 02/06/2014, 1:41 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:
Thanks both for the replies.
Duncan, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I am indeed writing a vignette using
Sweave (knitr actually), and I want it to be a vignette. I'm well aware
that I can dodge these tests as you suggest, or through other ways, but I'