[Rd] vignette output: word_document problems

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 17/06/2016 10:50 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hello:
>
>
>         Clicking "Knit Word" in RStudio 0.99.893 with R 3.3.0, works
> fine with a vignette with "output: word_document".  However, "R CMD
> build" throws the following error:
>
>
> $ R CMD build pkgW2vignettes
> * checking for file ‘pkgW2vignettes/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
> * preparing ‘pkgW2vignettes’:
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * installing the package to build vignettes
> * creating vignettes ... ERROR
> Error: processing vignette 'vignette2word_document.Rmd' failed with
> diagnostics:
> Failed to locate the ‘weave’ output file (by engine ‘knitr::rmarkdown’)
> for vignette with name ‘vignette2word_document’. The following files
> exist in directory ‘.’: ‘vignette1createsObject1.R’,
> ‘vignette1createsObject1.Rmd’, ‘vignette1createsObject1.html’,
> ‘vignette2confusedByObject1.R’, ‘vignette2confusedByObject1.Rmd’,
> ‘vignette2confusedByObject1.html’, ‘vignette2word_document.Rmd’,
> ‘vignette2word_document.docx’
> Execution halted
>
>
>         A toy example showing this problem is in rev. 239 of
> "vignette2word_document.Rmd" in "pkgW2vignettes" on R-Forge
> (https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=235).
>
>
>         Is there a way to get "R CMD build" to work with a vignette with
> output: word_document?
>

Not easily.  Vignette outputs need to be HTML or PDF.  You'll need to 
add another step to the processing to convert the .docx file to one of 
those.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>         Thanks,
>         Spencer Graves
>
>
> pkgW2vignettes
>
>
> I can knit
> with a vignette using RStudio 0.99.893 with R 3.3.0, I can knit
>
>
>
>
>   > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
> [6] methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] WriteXLS_4.0.0 sos_1.3-8      brew_1.0-6
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] htmltools_0.3.5 tools_3.3.0     yaml_2.1.13
> [4] Rcpp_0.12.5     rmarkdown_0.9.6 knitr_1.13
> [7] digest_0.6.9
>   >
>
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