[R] help file extension

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Mon Sep 1 22:36:41 CEST 2003


Perhaps you could make this a vignette?  See the section "Writing
package vignettes" in the manual "Writing R Extensions".

Kurt Sys <Kurt.Sys at ugent.be> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been struggling with the following problem... Normally, if you build a 
> package, the help files are created automatically (by 'converting' the Rd-files)
> in pdf- and/or html-format. I have some additional information, about the 
> general purpose and how-to-use of the package, actually, it's a scheme. This is 
> made in LaTeX. Can anyone give me a clue of how to include this scheme (and some 
> text) in the pdf- (and probably html-)help files while building the package?
> 
> tnx,
> Kurt.




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