[R-pkg-devel] Vignette does not show up after loading package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/06/2015 12:16 PM, Rik Verdonck wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am developing a package for the interpretation of mass spectrometry data, which can be found here: https://github.com/goat-anti-rabbit/labelpepmatch.R

If your vignette is not written in Sweave, you need to tell R what
package handles it.  See the "Non-Sweave vignettes" section 1.4.2 in
Writing R Extensions.

Duncan Murdoch

> I wrote a vignette that compiles fine into a .html using knitr in Rstudio.
> The output line in the vignette.rmd file looks like :
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> ??output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
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> However, when I use devtools::install_github("goat-anti-rabbit/labelpepmatch.R") or devtools::install_github("goat-anti-rabbit/labelpepmatch.R",build_vignettes = TRUE), the package loads normally, but no vignette is found when using browseVignettes("labelpepmatch") or vignette("labelpepmatch").
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> I don't really get this, because as far as I understood, shouldn't the package be able to build the vignette from scratch?
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> I also tried with these lines for output:
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> output:
>   html_document:
>     theme: readable
>   pdf_document:
>     highlight: default
>     toc: yes
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> And it nicely knits into example html and pdf files, but no real files are created in the labelpepmatch/vignettes directory. Any suggestions here?
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> So: recap of my questions:
> 1. Should it be possible for the vignette to be built from scratch and if yes, what is missing in my package for this functionality to work?
> 2. How can I make knitr output a html AND pdf in my vignettes directory?
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> Looking forward to your replies.
> Many, many thanks!
> Rik
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