Hi Mike, Did you read the relevant section of the official "Writing R Extensions" manual? If so, what about the instructions provided there do you find lacking?
Best, Ista On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Michael Hannon <jmhannon.ucda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings. The group that I work with has just started using the approach > outlined in Karl Broman's handy primer: > > http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/vignettes.html > > to create vignettes for a couple of R packages. > > This works fine as long as we have a current Rmd version of the vignette. But > we have some old PDF documents that we'd like to include as vignettes as well. > I'd like to know if there's a way to include such PDF files as vignettes. > > We *do* have the source files for the PDF files in question, but it would be > tedious to convert those source files to Rmd format. > > My first thought was simply to add the PDF files to the .../vignettes > subdirectory and run the devtools::build_vignettes() function (mentioned in > the Broman tutorial), but that doesn't work. I.e., the PDF files don't appear > in the list of vignettes for the package. > > And after running devtools::build_vignettes I see that there's a lot of > additional stuff in: > > ...lib/R/site-library/<package_name>/... > > so I don't see any obvious way to "fool" R into using the PDF files that > haven't gone through the whole knitr/rmarkdown process. (Not to mention that > such an approach would be fragile at best.) > > Suggestions welcome. Thanks. > > -- Mike > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.