[Rd] markdown vignette with the vignette command
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 14:36:52 CEST 2014
On 22/08/2014 8:06 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:
> Solved, thanks!
>
Could you post a short description of the solution, in case this problem
arises for anyone else? These posts are archived, and can be a useful
resource for others.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 22/08/2014, 6:09 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > we have a markdown vignette for our package in
> vignette/vignette.md <http://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
>
>
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