[R] Adding an Sweave Vignette to a package

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Harold,

Doran, Harold wrote:
> I'm finalizing development of a package that will include a vignette.
> Without the vignette, the package builds fine with no warnings and is
> ready for distribution. Now, I am following the directions for
> developing vignettes "Sweave, Part II: Package Vignettes" by Friedrich
> Leisch.
> 
> I am using a windows XP machine (other session info below). Here is what
> I have done.
> 
> 1) I add the 'inst/doc' directory to the package source tree.
> 2) I have added the following information in the preamble of the .Rnw
> file
> 
> % \VignetteIndexEntry{An \texttt{R} Package for Miscellaneous
> Psychometric Analyses}
> % \VignetteDepends{MiscPsycho, statmod}
> % \VignetteKeyword{misc}
> 
> 3) I then copy the file "MP.Rnw" to the 'inst/doc' directory.
> 4) I then run Rcmd build g:\MiscPsycho
> 
> The process begins as usual and it even tries to create the vignette.
> However, it runs into an error at code chunk 1 complaining that it
> cannot find the function called simRasch(). This simRasch function is
> one of the functions developed for this package and one that will exist
> only when the package is built. The build process is halted.
> 
> I'm not sure how to handle this. Any advice is appreciated.

Is there a library(MiscPsycho) at the beginning of that code chunk?

Best,

Jim


> 
> Harold
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] statmod_1.3.3
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.6.1
> 
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