No, I do not get the same as you. I have tested with R-devel and R-patched compiled today. When I do
R CMD Rd2pdf mpra I get (as reported a few days ago) Hmm ... looks like a package Converting Rd files to LaTeX Error : mpra/man/mpra-package.Rd:6: file './DESCRIPTION' does not exist whereas you (Kurt) reports that this works on zTree. When I do R CMD Rd2pdf mpra/man I get - a pdf produced - warnings about missing macros This is for a package with a PKGNAME-package.Rd man page containing \packageDescription, \packageAuthor, \packageTitle, \packageMaintainer, \doi R-versions: R version 3.4.2 Patched (2017-10-04 r73462) -- "Short Summer" Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit) R Under development (unstable) (2017-10-04 r73461) -- "Unsuffered Consequences" Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit) On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > >>>>> Kasper Daniel Hansen writes: > > Interesting. When I take e.g. zTree as the last CRAN package using the > \packageTitle macro, > > R CMD Rd2pdf zTree > > seems to work fine, but > > R CMD Rd2pdf zTree/man > > gives > > Converting Rd files to LaTeX Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", > encoding = "unknown", : > zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:6: unknown macro '\packageTitle' > Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", : > zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:9: unknown macro '\packageDescription' > Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", : > zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:13: unknown macro '\packageDESCRIPTION' > Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", : > zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:14: unknown macro '\packageIndices' > Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", : > zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:17: unknown macro '\packageAuthor' > Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", : > zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:18: unknown macro '\packageMaintainer' > > Same in your case? > > Best > -k > > > > When I run R CMD Rd2pdf on the man pages of a package, ie > > R CMD Rd2pdf man > > > I get > > > Converting Rd files to LaTeX Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", > > encoding = "unknown", fragment = FALSE, : > > man/mpra-package.Rd:6: unknown macro '\packageTitle' > > Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", > fragment = > > FALSE, : > > man/mpra-package.Rd:9: unknown macro '\packageDescription' > > Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", > fragment = > > FALSE, : > > man/mpra-package.Rd:15: unknown macro '\packageAuthor' > > Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", > fragment = > > FALSE, : > > man/mpra-package.Rd:17: unknown macro '\packageMaintainer' > > Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", > fragment = > > FALSE, : > > man/mpra-package.Rd:24: unknown macro '\doi' > > > It would appear that installed, system level macros are not read and > used? > > > Best, > > Kasper > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel