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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> 
To: Ulrike Groemping <groemp@beuth-hochschule.de> 
Cc: r-devel@r-project.org 
Sent: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:31:50 -0500 
Subject: Re: [Rd] Link to pdf documentation from other package ?

> On 11/24/2009 8:06 AM, Ulrike Groemping wrote: 
> > 
> > Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On 11/18/2009 8:01 AM, ml-it-r-devel@epigenomics.com wrote: 
> >>> Ulrike Grömping wrote, On 11/18/09 13:28: 
> >>>> Duncan Murdoch schrieb: 
> >>>>> Ulrike Groemping wrote: 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: 
> >>>>>>   
> >>>>>>> Ulrike Groemping wrote: 
> >>>>>>>   
> >>>>>>>> Dear developeRs, 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I have not found anything recent about how to link to a vignette or 
> >>>>>>>> other 
> >>>>>>>> documentation from within Rd-files. Is this now possible with the 
> >>>>>>>> new 
> >>>>>>>> help 
> >>>>>>>> system ? For example, I would like to link to the file AlgDesign.pdf 
> >>>>>>>> provided within the doc directory of package AlgDesign. 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>         
> >>>>>>> Yes, you can do it with a \url{} macro.  Use a relative link, acting 
> >>>>>>> as though the starting page is located in 
> >>>>>>> /library/AlgDesign/html/*.  So \url{../doc/AlgDesign.pdf} 
> >>>>>>> should work from the same package, 
> >>>>>>> \url{../../AlgDesign/doc/AlgDesign.pdf} from elsewhere.  Please let 
> >>>>>>> me know if this doesn't work, I haven't tested. 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch 
> >>>>>>>     
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Yes, this works, thanks! Is it also possible to display an 
> >>>>>> alternative text 
> >>>>>> instead of the URL itself, like with other links (e.g. show text 
> >>>>>> "Open pdf" 
> >>>>>> that operates the link) ? 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>   
> >> ... 
> >> Within the dynamic help, you're also restricted in what files you can 
> >> link to:  they need to be help pages, or files in the doc directory of a 
> >> package, or a few other special cases. 
> >> 
> >> Duncan Murdoch 
> >> ______________________________________________ 
> >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list 
> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > Good that you mention this restriction, this makes me understand my new 
> > problem. With his new version of AlgDesign, Bob Wheeler has made the file 
> > AlgDesign.pdf into a vignette which is no longer located in the doc 
> > directory but now in inst/doc. A link to that file from within my 
> > documentation does not work any longer. Would it be possible to include the 
> > directory inst/doc into the special cases to which linking is permitted ? 
> 
> When you install the package, the contents of inst/doc would normally be 
> copied to the doc directory.  Can you expand on why that doesn't happen 
> in your case? 
> 
> Duncan Murdoch 
------- End of Original Message -------

I'm sorry, you are right, this hasn't changed anything, I can still use the doc link, 
I was making false assumptions based on the fact that Bob told me he had changed 
the status of the pdf and checked that inst/doc had it now but not that doc didn't.

Regards, Ulrike
 

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