[R-pkg-devel] Install Package from GitHub in Vignette

[Daniel Sjoberg]

Awesome, I'll check it out.  I do like the HTML vignettes, so I am hoping I
can get it working in that format!

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:23 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 11 November 2019 at 12:44, Daniel Sjoberg wrote:
> | Thank you Ben. That is a great suggestion.  While searching for
> | instructions on using pre-compiled vignettes, I came across a few posts
> | recommending the dependency package be stored in a drat repository on
> | GitHub and using the DESCRIPTION `Additional_repositories:` tag to point
> to
> | it.  This solution seems easier in my current workflow, so I am going to
> | give that a try first.  But if the same problems persist, I am absolutely
> | moving to pre-complied vignettes.
>
> It depends on _how_ you compute your vignette but for pdf vignettes a very
> simple solution is offered by Mark here:
>
>
> https://www.markvanderloo.eu/yaRb/2019/01/11/add-a-static-pdf-vignette-to-an-r-package/
>
> I have switched a few packages of mine to this scheme.
>
> Of course, if you are after html vignettes then this does apply directly,
> but
> maybe you could still precompute a fancy gt table, take a screenshot and
> just
> include it as an image...
>
> Dirk
>
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