[Rd] R CMD Rd2pdf and macros

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

If anyone else (besides Kurt, thanks) is following this, I want to note
that this behaviour depends on whether you run
  R CMD Rd2pdf pkgname
on the output of R CMD build, ie. if pkgname was made by untarring a source
tarball or if it is on a "pure" development directory.  The differences is
the existence (or not) of pkgname/build/partial.rdb

Best,
Kasper

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, I do not get the same as you.
>
> I have tested with R-devel and R-patched compiled today.  When I do
>
> R CMD Rd2pdf mpra
>
> I get (as reported a few days ago)
>   Hmm ... looks like a package
>   Converting Rd files to LaTeX Error : mpra/man/mpra-package.Rd:6: file
> './DESCRIPTION' does not exist
> whereas you (Kurt) reports that this works on zTree.
>
> When I do
> R CMD Rd2pdf mpra/man
>
> I get
>   - a pdf produced
>   - warnings about missing macros
>
> This is for a package with a
>   PKGNAME-package.Rd
> man page containing \packageDescription, \packageAuthor, \packageTitle,
> \packageMaintainer, \doi
>
> R-versions:
>
> R version 3.4.2 Patched (2017-10-04 r73462) -- "Short Summer"
> Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit)
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2017-10-04 r73461) -- "Unsuffered
> Consequences"
> Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit)
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> 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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