On 22/08/2014, 6:09 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:> Dear list,
>
> we have a markdown vignette for our package in vignette/vignette.md
>
> This is not visible from within R with the vignette(package =
"mypackage")
> command.
>
> I assume the reason is that the vignette function only shows PDF vignettes.
> Is there any way to circumvent this and display markdown vignettes directly
> from within R?
>
> I tried to seek the answer from R archives and search engines but could not
> find the solution so far.
>
If you are using a current version of R, it should just work. For example,
vignette("knitr-markdown")
works for me when knitr is attached. If knitr was not attached, I'd
have to list it in the pkg argument of the vignette call.
Duncan Murdoch