On 27/09/2017 1:57 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
Sorry for the noise.
I wouldn't call this noise, it's a bug that happens to have a fairly
easy workaround. The tools functions are mainly for use by R utilities,
so they sometimes make strong assumptions about the context in which
they are used; this is a case where something that was thought of as
internal leaked out into user-land.
I assumed I could run this in the same directory as R CMD check. If I cd
into the package dir, and run it like
R CMD Rd2pdf man
it works. I was a bit sleep deprived yesterday.
You could also use
R CMD Rd2pdf .
while in that directory.
Duncan Murdoch
The fact that the output starts by
Hmm ... looks like a package
threw me off. That output suggests it should work, I think. So I would
suggests either
1) handling both package and man directories
2) check that the input dir is a collection of man pages with a
DESCRIPTION file in the same directory
Best,
Kasper
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 26/09/2017 10:27 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
When I include the macros \packageAuthor, \packageDescription,
\packageTitle, \packageMaintainer in a XX-package.Rd file, R CMD
Rd2pdf
fails with
$ R CMD Rd2pdf mpra
Hmm ... looks like a package
Converting Rd files to LaTeX Error : mpra/man/mpra-package.Rd:6:
file
'./DESCRIPTION' does not exist
This does not happen if I comment out 4 occurrences of these 4
macros in
mpra-package.Rd.
This is with
R Under development (unstable) (2017-09-26 r73351) -- "Unsuffered
Consequences"
Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit)
or
R version 3.4.2 RC (2017-09-26 r73351) -- "Short Summer"
Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit)
and MacTex 2017.
Those errors are coming from tools:::Rd_package_author and related
functions, because the system-defined macros call them. Current
definition of the \packageAuthor macro is
\newcommand{\packageAuthor}{\Sexpr[results=rd,stage=build]{tools:::Rd_package_author("#1")}}
and the function is defined as
function (pkg, dir = ".")
{
desc <- .read_description(file.path(dir, "DESCRIPTION"))
if (pkg != desc["Package"])
stop(gettextf("DESCRIPTION file is for package '%s', not '%s'",
desc["Package"], pkg))
desc["Author"]
}
So Peter is right, this would likely work if the current working
directory was the top level directory of the package, but it can't
work in general.
The easiest fix would probably be to change the code underlying R
CMD Rd2pdf so that it works from the top level directory; another
possibility might be to come up with a better default for the "dir"
parameter.
Duncan Murdoch
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