[R] help files and vignettes

Ingmar Visser i.visser at uva.nl
Thu Apr 28 22:25:34 CEST 2005


Hi all,
I'm writing a vignette for my package, and I would like to include some of
the package help files in there as well. Is there an easy way of doing so?
I tried using R CMD Rdconv to generate latex files from .Rd files but I am
not sure how to include these into a .Rnw file (ie the vignette source). The
resulting file from Rdconv do not readily compile using latex ...
The other option I tried is to use R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean etc which will
give me a latex'able file Rd2.tex, portions of which I can then include into
the vignette source file. However, this takes quite some time given that I
have 6 or so .Rd files. Especially when updating them, adding functions and
so forth, this process of generating the Rd2.tex files and then copying and
pasting into the vignette source is quite tedious.
In short, is there a faster way of doing this?
best, ingmar
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Ingmar Visser
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/ivisser/
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