On 22/01/2013 01:33, robin hankin wrote:> Hello. R-devel, r61697.
>
> I am having difficulty interpreting section 1.4 "Writing package
> vignettes" of the R-exts manual. Specifically, I want to use
> system.file() in some of my packages to locate a bib file,
> uncertainty.bib, which is part of the emulator package. I only want
> to maintain a single .bib file.
>
> R-exts says: "All other files needed to re-make the vignette PDFs
> (such as ... BiBTeX input files) must in the vignette source
> directory". So I've put my Rnw file and also the bib file in
> emulator/vignettes/ directory.
>
> And indeed, following R CMD build and then R CMD INSTALL on the
> tarball, I can see the Rnw file:
>
>>
system.file("doc","emulex.Rnw",package="emulator")
> [1] "/home/rksh/Rd/lib64/R/library/emulator/doc/emulex.Rnw"
>>
>
> so I know system.file() works as desired. But I can't find
> uncertainty.bib as R CMD INSTALL does not copy it to the system:
>
>>
system.file("doc","uncertainty.bib",package="emulator")
> [1] ""
>>
>
> So I can't retrieve uncertainty.bib and this means that several other
> packages can't bibtex correctly. Can anyone advise?
Read on:
'When R CMD build builds the vignette PDFs, it copies these and the
vignette sources from directory vignettes to inst/doc. To install any
other files from the vignettes directory, include a file
vignettes/.install_extras which specifies these as Perl-like regular
expressions on one or more lines. (See the description of the
.Rinstignore file for full details.)'
>
>
> --
> Robin Hankin
> Uncertainty Analyst
> hankin.robin at gmail.com
>
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