[R] help files and vignettes

[Uwe Ligges]

Ingmar Visser wrote:

> Hi Uwe,
> Thanks for that answer. However, one thing remains unclear, which latex file
> do I use here, ie the one generated from Rdconv, or the one generated as an
> intermediate step in Rd2dvi?

I meant the one generated from Rdconv.

Uwe


> In the latter case, wouldn't I get a double \documentclass statement and the
> like?
> thanks in advance, ingmar
> 
> 
> On 4/29/05 7:48 AM, "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ingmar Visser wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I'm writing a vignette for my package, and I would like to include some of
>>>the package help files in there as well. Is there an easy way of doing so?
>>>I tried using R CMD Rdconv to generate latex files from .Rd files but I am
>>>not sure how to include these into a .Rnw file (ie the vignette source). The
>>>resulting file from Rdconv do not readily compile using latex ...
>>>The other option I tried is to use R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean etc which will
>>>give me a latex'able file Rd2.tex, portions of which I can then include into
>>>the vignette source file. However, this takes quite some time given that I
>>>have 6 or so .Rd files. Especially when updating them, adding functions and
>>>so forth, this process of generating the Rd2.tex files and then copying and
>>>pasting into the vignette source is quite tedious.
>>>In short, is there a faster way of doing this?
>>>best, ingmar
>>
>>
>>You can wrap the resulting LaTeX files in
>>
>>\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>>\usepackage[ae]{Rd}
>>\begin{document}
>>
>>% \include{TheLaTeXFile}
>>
>>\end{document}
>>
>>
>>Relevant files (such as Rd.sty) are available in  .../pathToR/share/texmf
>>
>>
>>Hence you can \input or \include it in any other LaTeX files, such as
>>vignettes. And you can write Makefiles in order to process automatically.
>>
>>Uwe Ligges
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