[Rd] Changing style for the Sweave vignettes

[January Weiner]

Thank you, Søren and Brian for your answers.

Whether this is the right list -- well, I think it is, since I am
developing a package and would like to create a vignette which is
useful and convenient for my users. I know how to extract the vignette
code. However, most of my users don't.  Or if they do, they do not
bother, but copy the examples from the PDF while they are reading it.
At least that is my observation.

I'm sorry that my e-mail was unclear -- I started my e-mail with "as a
user, ...", but I did mention that it is my vignettes that I am
concerned with.

options(prompt=...) is an idea, though I'm still not sure as to the
second part of my question - whether a vignette without a command
prompt is acceptable in a package or not.

Kind regards,

j.


On 13 November 2014 12:36, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 05:09 AM, January Weiner wrote:
>>
>> As a user, I am always annoyed beyond measure that Sweave vignettes
>> precede the code by a command line prompt. It makes running examples
>> by simple copying of the commands from the vignette to the console a
>> pain. I know the idea is that it is clear what is the command, and
>> what is the output, but I'd rather precede the output with some kind
>> of marking.
>>
>> Is there any other solution possible / allowed in vignettes? I would
>> much prefer to make my vignettes easier to use for people like me.
>
>
> I agree with Søren that this is not the right list, but to complete the
> thread...
>
> See the examples in
>
> ?vignette
>
> start just above
>
> ## Now let us have a closer look at the code
>
> All vignette's are compiled.  You can trivially extract all the code used
> for any vignette in R, including any code not displayed in the text and
> hidden from the user, from within R, or saved out to an editor so you can
> source it line by line from Rstudio (or vim or emacs or...). That's the
> whole point.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
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