I naively thought it would be able to examine the compressed file,
Thanks for your answer :)

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 12-11-04 8:50 AM, Pierrick Bruneau wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>  From the currently available version of the package VBmix, I would like
>>> to
>>>
>> retrieve the intermediate .tex file that generates the VBmix-manual.pdf
>> file.
>> Formerly, running R CMD check with --no-clean allowed to get this tex
>> source from a hidden directory : this feature was removed, but can
>> apparently still be accessed through R CMD Rd2pdf --no-clean.
>>
>> Surprisingly, while the manual generation runs with no warnings when
>> issuing "R CMD check --as-cran VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz",
>> "R CMD Rd2pdf VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz" collapses under warnings, until it
>> simply
>>
>
> A tar.gz file is not an Rd file.  The help for Rd2pdf says it accepts the
> files in these ways:
>
> Generate PDF output from the Rd sources specified by files, by
> either giving the paths to the files, or the path to a directory with
> the sources of a package, or an installed package.
>
> So you need to untar the file and specify the directory for it, you can't
> use a tar.gz file here.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>  freezes...
>> A sample :
>>    VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30918: unexpected '{'
>> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
>> FALSE,  :
>>    VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30921: unexpected '}'
>> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
>> FALSE,  :
>>    VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30929: unexpected '{'
>> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
>> FALSE,  :
>>    VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30932: unexpected '}'
>> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment =
>> FALSE,  :
>>
>>
>> Rd files are encoded as regular ASCII text, I cannot get what is going
>> wrong... Any idea ?
>> Thanks by advance for your help.
>>
>> Pierrick Bruneau
>> Research Associate
>> CRP Gabriel Lippmann (Luxemburg)
>>
>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________**________________
>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help>
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/**
>> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html>
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>>
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]


