I am experimenting with putting vignettes in a vignettes/ directory as suggested in the new R release news. If I understand correctly, it is now suggested that the vignette source (.Stex in my case) should be in the vignettes/  directory and the pdf should be put in the inst/doc/ directory, for the case when it is not being built by R CMD build.   I am getting an error (R-2.14.0):


(cd inst/doc ;  R CMD Sweave --pdf ../../vignettes/Guide.Stex  ) Writing to file Guide.tex Processing code chunks with options ...

...

You can now run (pdf)latex on 'Guide.tex'

Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :

   Running 'texi2dvi' on '../../vignettes/Guide.tex' failed.

Messages:

/usr/bin/texi2dvi: cannot read ./../../vignettes/Guide.tex, skipping.

Calls: <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> -> texi2dvi Execution halted

I can work around this by copying the Stex to inst/doc first,  but I think that Sweave -pdf should be able to find the .tex file it just wrote.

Also, I would appreciate suggestions about whether one should try to build the pdf in the vignettes/ directory and then move it to inst/doc, or build the pdf in inst/doc.   I suppose this all gets looked after by R CMD build if I have BuildVignettes: true, but otherwise I think I have to do it manually by something like the above, so I am trying to understand the preferred strategy.

Paul
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