[Bioc-devel] man pages + vignette --> create an external package website?

Paul Shannon pshannon at systemsbiology.org
Fri Oct 8 22:43:56 CEST 2010


Nishant & Dan,

Everything works just as I had hoped.  Rd files converted to html, Rnw vignetted converted also. 

Thanks!

  - Paul

On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Nishant Gopalakrishnan wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> Here is a link to information for converting latex documents to html.
> 
>    http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/SweaveConvert
> 
> You could use R CMD Sweave file.Rnw to get tex files.
> 
> Nishant
> 
> 
> On 10/08/2010 11:32 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Paul Shannon <pshannon at systemsbiology.org>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Any tips on how to generate html from man/*Rd files and the package
>>> vignette, so that I can assemble all that information into an external
>>> website?  ... suitable for further development.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>> A good place to start might be:
>> 
>> help(package="tools")
>> and then look at:
>> 
>> ?tools:::Rd2HTML
>> 
>> That will convert your man pages to HTML.
>> 
>> I'm not sure about vignettes, but other functions in the tools package look
>> pretty helpful.
>> 
>> You might ask on the R-help list.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
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>> 
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