With recent versions of R there is no longer a need to trick R with
dummy Rnw files etc. Instead, try the following:
1. Put your rSARP.tex file in vignettes/, i.e. vignettes/rSARP.tex.
If you have other files that the LaTeX file depends on (e.g. figures),
these should also be put under vignettes/. When the LaTeX file is
compiled, it's relative to this directory.
2. Rename it to rSARP.latex. (rSARP.tex will also work, but then R
CMD check will give a NOTE that there is a *.tex file left behind.)
3. Add the following to the top of the rSARP.latex file:
%\VignetteIndexEntry{User manual}
%\VignetteEngine{R.rsp::tex}
4. Add the following two entries to the package DESCRIPTION file:
Suggests: R.rsp
VignetteBuilder: R.rsp
Now 'R CMD build <pkg>' will automatically compile the LaTeX to
PDF,
which will be a proper package vignette that is part of your package
*.tar.gz file. For there on it is just as any other vignette.
If you can't get it to work, make that the following
> tools::buildVignette("vignettes/rSARP.tex")
correctly generates rSARP.pdf without errors. If that works, then 'R
CMD build <pkg>' should also work.
Hope this helps
Henrik
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:50 AM, John Hutcheson <hutchesonjohn at att.net>
wrote:> Greetings! I am trying to develop a package for R for Search and Rescue
planning. I'd like to re-use an existing PDF file that was created in
emacs (so I have the .tex and source data) for use in inst/docs. The vignette
sections of the 'Writing r extensions' manual starts off implying that
this can be done, but after lots of effort, I find no way of getting it done. I
did find a suggestion to use a 'dummy' .Rnw file stored alongside the
pdf in the inst/doc folder, but haven't been able to make that work.
>
> Here's the setup data:
>
> Package name: rSARP
> directory structure : rSARP/inst/doc
> rSARP/inst/extdata
> rSARP/man
> rSARP/R
>
>
> Existing pdf manual: rSARP.pdf located in rSARP/inst/doc/ (Its less than
5 meg in size)
> VignetteIndexEntry file: rSARP.Rnw located in rSARP/inst/doc/ The
file contents for the dummy .Rnw are:
>
> %\VignetteIndexEntry{User manual}
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}
>
> I've tried creating an rSARP/vignette folder and storing the .Rnw file
there - no luck.
> I appreciate any assistance I can get to incorporate the existing
documentation into the package.
>
>
> John Hutcheson
> hutchesonjohn at att.net
> 989 - 430 - 7560
>
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