[Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

[Sean Robert McGuffee]

On 5/11/11 4:20 PM, "Paul Gilbert" <pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca> wrote:

> I thought the usual logic was that you might put graphs and images into a
> vignette, and you might refer to the vignette in an Rd help file, but you
> would not put the graphs into the help because ? access to the page cannot
> assume that you actual have a graphics device. Of course, examples in the Rd
> file can generate the graphs.
> 
> Paul


My understanding was that one can require graphics for a package that does
require graphics, right?

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Sean Robert McGuffee
>> Sent: May 11, 2011 3:08 PM
>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>> Subject: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I¹m trying to figure out how to put images into my package¹s help
>> documentation. I¹ve gotten to the point where I can put the images in
>> the
>> /inst/doc/ directory. I have also gotten to the point where I have
>> package
>> checks without any warnings. I couldn¹t find the terms ³picture,²
>> ³image,²
>> or ³graphic² in a text search within the Writing R Extensions: 2
>> Writing R
>> documentation files
>> <http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Writing-R-
>> documentation-f
>> iles>
>> I tried a couple of LaTeX guesses, but they lead to the following
>> errors on
>> check:
>> Warning: /LAB/SRM/PROGS/R_PACKAGES/Ralign/man/Ralign139.Rd:3:
>> unexpected
>> UNKNOWN '\usepackage'
>> Warning: /LAB/SRM/PROGS/R_PACKAGES/Ralign/man/Ralign139.Rd:36: unknown
>> macro
>> '\includegraphics'
>> What is the right way to do this?
>> Thanks,
>> Sean
>> 
>> 
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