Thank you for all the great tips! I ended up creating a drat package repo, and installing the packages from there with `Additional_repositories:` tag in the description. With this method, I was able to keep the vignettes as R markdown docs and the pkgdown site did not need any modifications.
Thanks!~ On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:40 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 11 November 2019 at 16:17, Daniel Sjoberg wrote: > | Awesome, I'll check it out. I do like the HTML vignettes, so I am > hoping I > | can get it working in that format! > > Well, as I said (but wrote poorly, dropping a "non"): Mark's approach is > for > pdf. I like as you then get by with Sweave only, hence not depending on > anything that could change or break. > > For html, there is also a solution by Henrik involving his R.rsp package. > See > eg https://stackoverflow.com/a/24111191/143305 > > Dirk > > | On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:23 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > wrote: > | > | > > | > On 11 November 2019 at 12:44, Daniel Sjoberg wrote: > | > | Thank you Ben. That is a great suggestion. While searching for > | > | instructions on using pre-compiled vignettes, I came across a few > posts > | > | recommending the dependency package be stored in a drat repository on > | > | GitHub and using the DESCRIPTION `Additional_repositories:` tag to > point > | > to > | > | it. This solution seems easier in my current workflow, so I am > going to > | > | give that a try first. But if the same problems persist, I am > absolutely > | > | moving to pre-complied vignettes. > | > > | > It depends on _how_ you compute your vignette but for pdf vignettes a > very > | > simple solution is offered by Mark here: > | > > | > > | > > https://www.markvanderloo.eu/yaRb/2019/01/11/add-a-static-pdf-vignette-to-an-r-package/ > | > > | > I have switched a few packages of mine to this scheme. > | > > | > Of course, if you are after html vignettes then this does apply > directly, > | > but > | > maybe you could still precompute a fancy gt table, take a screenshot > and > | > just > | > include it as an image... > | > > | > Dirk > | > > | > -- > | > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > | > > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
