[Bioc-devel] vignette metadata dissapeared in Sweave/PDF vignettes

[Andrzej Oleś]

Hi Robert,

thank you for reporting this! I've fixed it in
https://github.com/aoles/biocViews/commit/a5f3cd0 (Dan Tenenbaum CC-ed).

Cheers,
Andrzej



On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Robert Castelo <robert.castelo at upf.edu>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> I have noticed that in the recent release of BioC the vignettes produced
> as Sweave/PDF documents do not show anymore the metadata written using
> %\VignetteIndexEntry{}, while this seems to work fine with the HTML
> vignettes.
>
> compare for instance the vignette metadata in the landing pages of the
> latest release 3.3 of:
>
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/VariantFiltering
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/qpgraph
>
> with the previous release 3.2:
>
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/html/VariantFiltering.html
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/html/qpgraph.html
>
> while HTML vignettes do not seem to have this problem, see for instance:
>
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocStyle.html
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/AnnotationHub.html
>
> according to the current "Writing R Extentions" manual, this kind of
> metadata line is still valid in latex, and the local HTML landing page of
> vignettes via browseVignettes() shows that metadata. so i guess this must
> be an issue to resolve on the BioC website.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> robert.
>
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