[Rd] CRAN: How to list a non-Sweave doc under "Vignettes:" on package page?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> Thanks, and sorry for hijacking. I tried it once and gave up later
> because I do not want hard-coded files (may be good or bad, though).
> My point is that both CRAN and the package documentation are
> restricted to Sweave for automatic generation of the vignette list. I
> was hoping that vigettes could be like demos, which are listed in
> demo/00Index by package authors and will show up in demo(package =
> xxx). I apologize if this is irrelavent to your question.

No worries - I just wanted to clarify.  I second your wishlist.

FYI, you can achieve some automation by using inst/doc/Makefile that
processes your own inst/doc/00Index.dcf file.  You'll still need some
kind of index.html template though.  (In the R.rsp package I'm using
an index.html.rsp template this way).

/H

>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
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>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>>> I have the same question. I wish vignettes which are shown in CRAN and
>>> the package documentation are not restricted to Sweave (or I missed
>>> something in the R-exts manual?). What I did in the past was to cheat
>>> Sweave by putting an Rnw document which is essentially a tex document
>>> (I used my own functions to compile Rnw to tex).
>>
>> How CRAN behaves and how the help package system behaves may be two
>> different problems.  My question is specifically on how CRAN works.
>>
>> To have inst/doc/ documents to be listed on the package's help page,
>> you can add an inst/doc/index.html file, cf. Section 'Writing package
>> vignettes' in 'Writing R Extensions'. You can use the following
>> index.html file as a template:
>>
>> help.start();
>> url <- sprintf("http://127.0.0.1:%s/library/utils/doc/index.html",
>> tools:::httpdPort);
>> download.file(url, basename(url));
>> browseURL(url);
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yihui
>>> --
>>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to have non-Sweave vignettes(*) in inst/doc/ be listed
>>>> under 'Downloads' on CRAN package pages?  For instance, in my R.rsp
>>>> package I have a inst/doc/report.pdf (part of the source *.tar.gz)
>>>> that is not detected/listed.  The PDF is not based on a Sweave
>>>> vignette but an *.tex.rsp vignette that is dynamically created via
>>>> inst/doc/Makefile.  It is listed
>>>>
>>>> (*) BTW, can the term "vignette" be used for any inst/doc/ document,
>>>> or should it be reserved for Sweave+LaTeX-based documents?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Henrik
>>>>
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