> On 19 Feb 2018, at 12:25, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 19/02/2018 5:47 AM, Michael Hannon wrote: >> Thanks, Duncan. The files in question are Emacs Org-mode files, and I >> think these are more or less isomorphic to Rmd files, but I haven't >> used Org-mode in a long time, so I think the mapping (Org-mode ==> >> Rmd) would be painful.
That should be easy - you can export org-mode files directly to LaTex. I haven’t used org-mode for some time, but I think it is Ctrl - C - E and than follow the prompts (obviously in emacs). Rainer > > If they aren't LaTeX then they won't be able to masquerade as Sweave files, > so things are more complicated. > > I think there are two possibilities. The better but harder one is to write > your own "vignette engine". Section 1.4.2 of the manual describes the > process, and ?tools::vignetteEngine describes what is needed in your engine. > > The other possibility is to manually edit an inst/doc/index.html file to > include links to your documents. They won't be treated as vignettes, but at > least users will be able to find them. The other disadvantage of this > approach is that you'll need to edit it for all vignettes, not just the > strange ones. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> -- Mike >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:20 AM, Duncan Murdoch >> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> On 18/02/2018 9:06 PM, Michael Hannon 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 >>>> <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.) >>> >>> >>> You don't say what format the source is, but if it is LaTeX, you just need >>> to add some comments at the beginning, rename ending in .Rnw, and R will >>> recognize plain LaTeX files as Sweave vignettes. >>> >>> See the Writing R Extensions manual, section 1.4. >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> >>>> >>>> Suggestions welcome. Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- Mike >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>> <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 <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To > UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > <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. -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) University of Zürich Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 email: rai...@krugs.de <mailto:rai...@krugs.de> Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
