Dear List,
I recently stumbled over the possibility and need to specifiy
% \VignetteDepends{}
in my vignettes. I did not know about this, and I notice that it is not
mentioned in the R-extensions manual section "Writing package vignettes".
I have some questions with regards to that:
- would it be possible to include into the section "Writing package
vignettes" some hint that besides \VignetteIndexEntry also
\VignetteDepends{}
\VignetteKeywords{}
\VignettePackage{}
exist (and should be used)?
Also a link to the R-News Paper "Sweave, Part II: Package Vignettes" may
be very helpful.
- Is the documentation of these somewhere else where I didn't find it?
- Are there more such commands?
- Is there a way to ask R CMD check to check whether all dependencies of
the vignettes are correctly specified?
Of course, on my computer all required packages are available...
- Which dependencies should go into \VignetteDepends{}?
Only those without Priority in the packageDescription, or also
recommended packages, or maybe even base packages?
Should I specify the package that the vignette belongs to itself?
- Related, but slightly different: is there a way to temporarily enforce
that specified packages should not be loaded (or that only specified
packages are allowed to be loaded)?
I have a few functions in my package that do use e.g. plotrix if it is
available but otherwise should work in a less fancy way.
Till now I test them on an old computer where I didn't install those
packages but that's quite a hassle.
Thank you very much for your kind help!
Claudia Beleites
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Claudia Beleites
Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Via Valerio 2
I-34127 Trieste
ITALY
email: cbelei...@units.it
phone: +39 (0 40) 5 58-34 68
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