[Rd] user defined macros in Rd files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-10-09 7:54 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> I mean, it sounds like a better idea to define \CRANpkg only once in
>> one central place, and use it in base R, instead of defining it in
>> every single Rd file, because it seems to be generally useful (is 91 a
>> large number? maybe).
>>
>> Similarly, when it comes to an add-on package, it will be nice if the
>> package author can define these macros in one place, and use them in
>> his/her package.
>>
>> When we have to copy and paste a macro 91 times, it seems to have
>> defeated the purpose of a macro.
>
> On my related wishlist: A standardized mechanism to 'R CMD build' for
> building man/*.Rd from any input format (e.g. roxygen and so on)
> analogously how we can now build vignettes of any input format.  With
> that in place, it would a be piece of cake to include macros from
> external files.
>
> Just wanted to throw it out there.

No, we certainly won't do that.  We rely on being able to process the Rd 
files in multiple ways.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> /Henrik
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 13-10-09 4:34 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +1. As an example, there are 91 instances of \newcommand{\CRANpkg} in
>>>> R source, and this number is still growing as I see:
>>>>
>>>> $ grep "\\\\newcommand{\\\\CRANpkg}" -r . | wc
>>>>        91      91   10317
>>>>
>>>
>>> So you're saying if I ever get around to doing this, I'll have to track down
>>> 91+ files to make use of it?  This sounds like an argument why someone else
>>> should do it. ;-)
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>
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