[R] How to include a vignette with my package?

[Duncan Murdoch]

François Aucoin wrote:
> I want to include a vignette with a package I wrote.  I did follow the
> "Writting R extentions" document step by step, but went I run "Rcmd build",
> an error occurs.   It goes like this:
>
> "
> * creating vignettes ... ERROR
> .
> .
> .
> .
> :7: Emergency stop
> L7L ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!texify: pdflatex
> failed for some reason <see log file>.
> buildVignettes<dir ='. '>
> Error in texi2dvi<fil =bft,pdf =TRUE, clean =FALSE, quiet = quiest > :
>  running 'texi2dvi' on "test.tex' failed
> Calls : buildVignettes -> texi2dvi
> Execution halted

I would guess that the script couldn't find LaTeX (more specifically, 
pdflatex).  You may need to install it, or at least add it to your path.

Duncan Murdoch