[R-pkg-devel] vignette via devtools: sometimes found, sometimes not (same package)

2018-04-16 Thread Alexandre Courtiol
Dear all, I am teaching a class and for that I created a R package that mostly contains vignettes (the slides of the course). I host the package on GitHub because I want the students to download every day the latest version of the package. Building the vignettes takes a couple of hours so I pre-bui

Re: [R-pkg-devel] vignette via devtools: sometimes found, sometimes not (same package)

2018-04-16 Thread Ben Bolker
I don't have a good solution but wonder if you could narrow down the problem by getting them to send you sessionInfo() (or devtools::session_info()) from a clean R session with just devtools loaded. system.file() might be an alternative to paste0 + find.package() (won't help much with the fundam

Re: [R-pkg-devel] vignette via devtools: sometimes found, sometimes not (same package)

2018-04-16 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
Hi, The problem is indeed difficult to debug but there are things that can be done to narrow it down. 1. Are there 1/3 unlucky computers fixed? (I.e does the problem occur always on the same computers) Also, do you really mean computer or user? 2. Are the students working under R studio? If so

[R-pkg-devel] Rd files: using \link[pkg]{foo} when file names differ between OSs

2018-04-16 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear All, Two recent threads in the bioconductor devel mailing list (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2018-April/013156.html and https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2018-April/013259.html) are related to packages that have different names of html files in different operating systems

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd files: using \link[pkg]{foo} when file names differ between OSs

2018-04-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/04/2018 11:35 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: Dear All, Two recent threads in the bioconductor devel mailing list (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2018-April/013156.html and https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2018-April/013259.html) are related to packages that have differen

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd files: using \link[pkg]{foo} when file names differ between OSs

2018-04-16 Thread Martin Maechler
> Duncan Murdoch > on Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:52:10 -0400 writes: > On 16/04/2018 11:35 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Two recent threads in the bioconductor devel mailing list >> (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2018-April/013156.html

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd files: using \link[pkg]{foo} when file names differ between OSs

2018-04-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/04/2018 12:06 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: Duncan Murdoch on Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:52:10 -0400 writes: > On 16/04/2018 11:35 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Two recent threads in the bioconductor devel mailing list >> (https://stat.ethz.ch/piper

Re: [R-pkg-devel] vignette via devtools: sometimes found, sometimes not (same package)

2018-04-16 Thread Alexandre Courtiol
Re, On 16 April 2018 at 17:35, Georgi Boshnakov < georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > The problem is indeed difficult to debug but there are things that can be > done to narrow it down. > > 1. Are there 1/3 unlucky computers fixed? (I.e does the problem occur > always on the same

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd files: using \link[pkg]{foo} when file names differ between OSs

2018-04-16 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/16/2018 12:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 16/04/2018 12:06 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: Duncan Murdoch on Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:52:10 -0400 writes: > On 16/04/2018 11:35 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Two recent threads in the bioconductor devel

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd files: using \link[pkg]{foo} when file names differ between OSs

2018-04-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/04/2018 1:06 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 04/16/2018 12:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 16/04/2018 12:06 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: Duncan Murdoch on Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:52:10 -0400 writes: > On 16/04/2018 11:35 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: >> Dear All, >>