[Rd] R CMD Rd2pdf and macros

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Kasper Daniel Hansen writes:

Interesting.  When I take e.g. zTree as the last CRAN package using the
\packageTitle macro,

   R CMD Rd2pdf zTree

seems to work fine, but

   R CMD Rd2pdf zTree/man

gives

Converting Rd files to LaTeX Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown",  :
  zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:6: unknown macro '\packageTitle'
Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown",  :
  zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:9: unknown macro '\packageDescription'
Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown",  :
  zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:13: unknown macro '\packageDESCRIPTION'
Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown",  :
  zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:14: unknown macro '\packageIndices'
Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown",  :
  zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:17: unknown macro '\packageAuthor'
Warning in parse_Rd("zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown",  :
  zTree/man/zTree-package.Rd:18: unknown macro '\packageMaintainer'

Same in your case?

Best
-k


> When I run R CMD Rd2pdf on the man pages of a package, ie
>   R CMD Rd2pdf man

> I get

> Converting Rd files to LaTeX Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd",
> encoding = "unknown", fragment = FALSE,  :
>   man/mpra-package.Rd:6: unknown macro '\packageTitle'
> Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
> FALSE,  :
>   man/mpra-package.Rd:9: unknown macro '\packageDescription'
> Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
> FALSE,  :
>   man/mpra-package.Rd:15: unknown macro '\packageAuthor'
> Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
> FALSE,  :
>   man/mpra-package.Rd:17: unknown macro '\packageMaintainer'
> Warning in parse_Rd("man/mpra-package.Rd", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
> FALSE,  :
>   man/mpra-package.Rd:24: unknown macro '\doi'

> It would appear that installed, system level macros are not read and used?

> Best,
> Kasper

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