[R] The .tex version of the manual in foo.Rcheck

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Wed Apr 29 16:55:18 CEST 2009



Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> G'day Uwe,
> 
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:03:43 +0200
> Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
>> you can also take a source package an run
>>
>> R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean packageName
>>
>> on it and you will get a temporary directory with the TeX sources in
>> it.
> 
> Which is fine for manual processing and when done once or twice, but
> somewhat less helpful for automatic processing in scripts since the
> name of the temporary directory is hard to predict.
> 
> `R CMD check foo' copies already unconditionally the foo-manual.log
> file from the temporary directory to the foo.Rcheck directory; and the
> foo-manual.tex file is copied if an error occurs during processing.
> What is the problem with also copying the foo-manual.tex file
> unconditionally to foo.Rcheck?

No problem at all, I think.

Uwe



> 
> Cheers,
> 	
> 	Berwin




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