[Rd] markdown vignette with the vignette command

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/08/2014, 6:09 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> we have a markdown vignette for our package in vignette/vignette.md
> 
> This is not visible from within R with the vignette(package = "mypackage")
> command.
> 
> I assume the reason is that the vignette function only shows PDF vignettes.
> Is there any way to circumvent this and display markdown vignettes directly
> from within R?
> 
> I tried to seek the answer from R archives and search engines but could not
> find the solution so far.
> 

If you are using a current version of R, it should just work.  For example,

vignette("knitr-markdown")

works for me when knitr is attached.  If knitr was not attached, I'd
have to list it in the pkg argument of the vignette call.

Duncan Murdoch