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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 November 2019 at 16:17, Daniel Sjoberg wrote:
| Awesome, I'll check it out.  I do like the HTML vignettes, so I am hoping I
| can get it working in that format!

Well, as I said (but wrote poorly, dropping a "non"): Mark's approach is for
pdf. I like as you then get by with Sweave only, hence not depending on
anything that could change or break.

For html, there is also a solution by Henrik involving his R.rsp package. See
eg https://stackoverflow.com/a/24111191/143305

Dirk
 
| 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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| >

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