Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-07 Thread Rolf Turner
Thanks Dirk. Sorry for being so slow to express my thanks. I've been, uh, distracted. Have not yet tried out your demo; I will shortly. Thanks again. cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/03/2021 9:12 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 5 March 2021 at 15:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 05/03/2021 2:40 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote: | > Thank you. Glad to hear it's useful. | > | > This plain TeX/LaTeX vignette engine is implemented using base R. If | > someone is willing to

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 March 2021 at 12:54, Rolf Turner wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | By "in base R" do you mean that one can do this *without* invoking | the R.rsp package? Exactly. Zero added dependencies. | What I understand you to be saying is that you can add four or five | lines to a *.tex file in

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-06 Thread Rolf Turner
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 08:12:40 -0600 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > All the while we all carry on and just slap the four or five lines > onto the file make it an Sweave vignette _without any executed code_ > which works in base R today as a proxy for pure LaTeX, just as it has > for 25 or so years.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2021 at 15:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 05/03/2021 2:40 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote: | > Thank you. Glad to hear it's useful. | > | > This plain TeX/LaTeX vignette engine is implemented using base R. If | > someone is willing to drive the efforts, I think it's not too much | >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 05/03/2021 2:40 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Thank you. Glad to hear it's useful. This plain TeX/LaTeX vignette engine is implemented using base R. If someone is willing to drive the efforts, I think it's not too much work to refactor it and propose it for base R itself, where I think it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

2021-03-05 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Thank you. Glad to hear it's useful. This plain TeX/LaTeX vignette engine is implemented using base R. If someone is willing to drive the efforts, I think it's not too much work to refactor it and propose it for base R itself, where I think it belongs, e.g. in the 'utils' package where Sweave