[Bioc-devel] org-mode vignettes

Wolfgang Huber whuber at embl.de
Wed Aug 28 16:38:19 CEST 2013


Hi Martin,
thanks! Both of these sound doable, we'll explore. What was the third one?
	Best wishes, Wolfgang

On 28 Aug 2013, at 14:28, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:

> On 08/28/2013 02:50 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> is there already a best practice (example?) for how to deliver vignettes
>> written in org-mode (http://orgmode.org) in Bioconductor packages?
> 
> Three possibilities come to mind.
> 
> Implement the equivalent of the knitr package, preferably without external dependencies (sounds like a fun exercise ;)) and simply add the package to the VignetteBuilder: tag to the DESCRIPTION file (as in Writing R Extensions).
> 
> Do the two-step of transforming org-mode to an intermediate form, e.g., markdown, then using standard tools. The transformation would be the maintainer's responsibility, prior to svn commit. This is essentially how roxygen2 is being used for man pages.
> 
> (Even as an emacs user I find it weird to tie documentation to an application.)
> 
> Martin
> 
>> 
>> (This would also require that emacs and its ESS and org modes are installed
>> on the build servers.)
>> 
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