Thanks for the inventive workaround. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Berwin A Turlach <ber...@maths.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > G'day Gabor, > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:47:53 -0500 > Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [...] >> Unless this has changed recently,I've tried including a PDF but it >> does not appear in library(help = myPackage) nor on the CRAN site on >> http://cran.r-project.org/package=myPackage >> while Sweave'd PDFs do. > > If you want a PDF file to appear in library(help=myPackage), then you > can write a vignette that just includes that PDF file via \includepdf > from the LaTeX package(?) pdfpages. > > You will, of course, end up with two PDF files that are practically > identical. So you might want to exclude the original PDF file from the > build package via .Rbuildignore. > > If you do so, the next problem is that since R 2.6.0 "R CMD check" is > trying to latex the vignette and not just checks the code in the > vignette. And in current TeX systems latex will hang if \includepdf > does not find the specified PDF file; latex does not stop with an > error, it hangs. > > So the vignette has to be written smart enough to try to include the > PDF file via \includepdf only if the file really exists, but that can > easily be done. See the package lasso2 for an example. > > If you follow this set up, your PDF file will show up in > library(help=myPackage) and your package will pass "R CMD check" on > CRAN. > > HTH. > > Cheers, > > Berwin >
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