[Rd] R CMD build processes inst/doc/Makefile only if there are vignette files?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Hervé Pagès wrote:

> On 11-03-30 01:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> What R CMD build (and check) does is to call tools::buildVignettes.
>> That has been true for a while, and buildVignettes() returns if no
>> vignettes are found. The docs are out-of-date.
>> 
>> My view is that you are misusing inst/doc: it is intended *only* for
>> files which are going to be installed and hence report.tex should not
>> really be there. So you should be doing this in another source directory
>> and copying report.pdf to inst/doc. Use configure to arrange this.
>> 
>> Shortly vignettes to be built will be moved out of inst/doc.
>
> Could you please elaborate on this? I just found this in the NEWS for
> R 2.14.0:
>
>  o The preferred location for vignette sources is now the directory
>    ‘vignettes’ and not ‘inst/doc’: R CMD build will now re-build
>    vignettes in ‘vignettes’ and copy the ‘.Rnw’ (etc) files and
>    the corresponding PDFs to ‘inst/doc’.
>
> Sounds like an important move. What are the long term plans: keep
> both inst/doc/ and vignettes/ as places for vignettes to be built?
> Or drop inst/doc/ at some point?

Drop inst/doc at some point.  It doesn't make much difference to the 
codebase: all the work is done in pkgVignettes().

>
> Thanks!
> H.
>
>
>> 
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> in Section 'Writing package vignettes' of 'Writing R Extensions' it says:
>>> 
>>> "Whenever a Makefile is found, then R CMD build will try to run make
>>> after the Sweave runs, so PDF manuals can be created from arbitrary
>>> source formats (plain LaTeX files, ...). [...] Note that the make step
>>> is executed even if there are no files in Sweave format, [...]".
>>> 
>>> In my package, inst/doc/ file contains two files: Makefile, and
>>> report.tex. However, when running 'Rcmd build' on Windows with R
>>> v2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-27 r55091) I can only get 'make' to run
>>> (process inst/doc/Makefile) if I add a inst/doc/dummy.Rnw file,
>>> otherwise nothing happens. My Makefile contains:
>>> 
>>> all: pdf
>>> 
>>> pdf: report.tex
>>> texi2dvi --pdf report.tex
>>> 
>>> clean:
>>> rm dummy.Rnw dummy.tex
>>> rm *.aux *.log *.toc
>>> 
>>> Is it really necessary to add dummy.Rnw? Am I missing something?
>>> 
>>> /Henrik
>>> 
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-27 r55091)
>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>> 
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] tools_2.13.0
>>> 
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>> 
>
>
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