[Rd] Problem in vignette packaging of Sweave in utils package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I believe the issue is actually quite simple: you need to run

make vignettes

when building from a tarball if you want the tangled vignettes and the 
indices.

I'll make that automatic after more testing.

On 27/07/2012 21:55, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12-07-27 1:23 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> New help request below
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12-07-03 1:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In ?Sweave, it refers to Sweave User Manual. In the doc folder of
>>>>> utils package, I see "Sweave.pdf".
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I can't find it from within R
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> vignette("Sweave User Manual")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Warning message:
>>>>> vignette ‘Sweave User Manual’ not found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Turns out there was a bug in the code to install from tarballs, so base
>>>> package vignettes weren't fully installed.  I've fixed it; installs from
>>>> R-patched or R-devel revisions after 59750 should be okay.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Duncan
>>>
>>> Can I ask you to check this one again?
>>
>>
>> Sorry, I can't help with this.  If you build from svn or from a tarball,
>> then I could help, but someone else produces the rpms, and I don't have
>> access to a Linux system to try them.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>
> Sorry I was unclear. I did build from R-patched tarball, from here:
>
> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-patched_2012-07-25.tar.gz
>
> I get the same result whether I build that into an RPM or if I build
> and install the "old fashioned" way (configure, make, make install).
> The Sweave pdf is created, but not found inside R.
>
> I just re-ran the compilation in an Emacs shell and you can see
> everything that goes on:
>
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/misc/R-patched-build-20120725.txt
>
> As you will see, I run into problems with pdf creation in
>
> make pdf
>
> dealing with refman. I think that links back to the ancient tetex
> toolkit and the lack of incolsolata font.  If that is the reason R
> can't find the vignette, I would be glad to know.
>
> I do get the Sweave.pdf vignette created, just not indexed.
>
> pj
>


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