Have a look at tools::buildVignette() - it builds a vignette the same way as R CMD build does it. It's a good start for troubleshooting.
/Henrik On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Lenth, Russell V <russell-le...@uiowa.edu> wrote: > Thanks, Dirk. Well, I tried this (after suitable modification), and what it > does is create all the intermediate files, graphics files, an .Rout file, > etc. in the vignette directory. And even then, for some reason it didn't > build the pdfs correctly. So I had a mess to clean up. > > I've tried Markdown a few times, and technically, I guess it works. But I > always find myself abandoning it later because it gives me what it wants > instead of what I want. I suppose I could learn more of its refinements, but > even then it doesn't seem very promising. I'm not too old to learn new > things, but at my age, I think I am empowered to choose what I want to learn > -- and expertise on Markdown is just not a big priority. > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 2:31 PM > To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > Cc: Lenth, Russell V <russell-le...@uiowa.edu>; r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Best practices for vignettes > > > On 26 July 2015 at 14:22, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > | On 26 July 2015 at 18:42, Lenth, Russell V wrote: > | | What's the best way to manage vignettes? > | > | All the young ones will of course tell you to use Markdown :) > | > | I still use Sweave / LaTeX as well, along with a custom driver: > | highlight, as we once figured out how to make it create pretty shaded > | boxen with code (as seen in the various Rcpp vignettes). > | > | So for that I often keep a five-line script 'buildVignette.r' in the > | vignette directory. With DESCRIPTION set up right (for the added > | vignette driver) this then works in the package when it works manually for > the tests. > > I was rambling here. What I meant to say is > > - buildVignette.r as shown below allows me to build the vignette on the spot > outside of package builds -- ie when I am in "vignette writing mode" > > - if the vignette builds during the manual builds, which by their design > mock what the package build process does, then I am reasonably confident > that the R CMD ... process works too. > > Hope this clarifies. > > Dirk > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
