[Rd] markdown vignette with the vignette command

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/08/2014 8:06 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:
> Solved, thanks!
>
Could you post a short description of the solution, in case this problem 
arises for anyone else?  These posts are archived, and can be a useful 
resource for others.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Duncan Murdoch 
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 22/08/2014, 6:09 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:
>     > Dear list,
>     >
>     > we have a markdown vignette for our package in
>     vignette/vignette.md <http://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
>
>