On 04/04/2013 10:55 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
Dear all,

I'm documenting an elaborate analysis as a private package. The package writes 
all required output to a database. I use a Sweave file to transform all the 
results from the database into a report.

Now I would like to add this Sweave to my package. I'm a bit puzzled on how to 
do that. It is not a vignette: the data is not available when the package is 
build and I need to recompile the Sweave file on demand (after the analysis was 
run).

So I have two questions.
1) Where to put a non-vignette Sweave file in a package.
2) How do I compile that Sweave file.

1) You can put it anywhere you like in the inst directory, but "doc" might make sense (if it doesn't trigger warnings about a badly formed vignette, I haven't checked). When installed, it moves up one level. So ".../inst/doc/mydoc.Rnw"
will be retrievable as system.file("doc/mydoc.Rnw", package="mypkg").

2) Use Sweave() and tools::texi2pdf(). You might want to write your own function that calls those, after saving the data in the appropriate place.

Duncan Murdoch


Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and 
Forest
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