[Rd] vignettes present in 2 folders or won't work

[Alexandre Courtiol]

Noted Duncan and TRUE...

I cannot do more immediately unfortunately, that is always the issue of
asking a last minute panic attack question before teaching a course
involving the package...
I do have /doc in my .Rbuildignore for reasons I can no longer remember...
I will dig and create a MRE/reprex.
The students will download heavy packages, but they probably won't notice.
*Apologies*

In the meantime, perhaps my question was clear enough to get clarity on:
1) whether having vignettes twice in foders inst/doc and vignettes is
normal or not when vignettes are static.
2) where could anyone find a complete documentation on R vignettes since it
is a recurring issue in this list and elsewhere.

Many thanks

On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 18:19, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:

> You are doing a lot of things that are non-standard, so I doubt if
> anyone is going to be able to help you without access to a simple
> reproducible example of a package that does what you do.  Try to cut out
> as much as you can to make it minimal.  For example,
> devtools::document() (indeed, most of your code) is probably irrelevant
> to your problem with vignettes, but things like your .Rbuildignore file
> are not.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 01/11/2020 11:22 a.m., Alexandre Courtiol wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am struggling with an issue related to static vignettes: they work, but
> > only when present in double in the tarball -- in the folder inst/doc and
> > vignettes; see below for details.
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > I am pre-compiling heavy vignettes thanks to the vignette builder R.rsp.
> > So basically, I have PDF files which I want the package to use as
> Vignettes.
> >
> > For this, I have the following in my Description file:
> > VignetteBuilder: R.rsp
> >
> > I am organising the vignette by hand using a Makefile (because this is
> the
> > only way that has proven 100% reliable to me, across a variety of
> > situations).
> >
> > In my Makefile, I have something like:
> >
> > build: clean
> >    mkdir -p inst/doc
> >    mkdir vignettes
> >    -cp sources_vignettes/*/*.pdf* vignettes
> >    Rscript -e "tools::compactPDF(paths = 'vignettes', gs_quality =
> > 'printer')"
> >    cp vignettes/*.pdf* inst/doc
> >    Rscript -e "devtools::document()"
> >    mkdir inst/extdata/sources_vignettes
> >    cp sources_vignettes/*/*.Rnw inst/extdata/sources_vignettes
> >    Rscript -e "devtools::build(vignettes = FALSE)"
> >
> > That works fine, the vignettes show up using browseVignettes() after
> > installing the package the normal way.
> >
> > However, after building, the tar.gz contains each pdf corresponding to a
> > vignette twice: once in vignettes and once in inst/doc (which is obvious,
> > when reading the Makefile).
> >
> >  From the reading of "Writing R Extensions" and other material, I cannot
> > tell if that is a must or not, but I hope it is not since I wish to avoid
> > that (my pdfs are large even once compressed).
> >
> > My problem is that when I delete either inst/doc or vignette just before
> > calling the last command of the Makefile (Rscript -e
> > "devtools::build(vignettes = FALSE)"), then browseVignettes() does not
> find
> > the vignettes after a normal installation.
> >
> > If anyone knows of some _complete_ documentation about the ever
> troublesome
> > topic of vignettes building in R, I would be very grateful too...
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
>

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Alexandre Courtiol

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