[R-pkg-devel] Including in my vignette a figure drawn outside R

[Jeff Newmiller]

You could use DiagrammeR.

On December 3, 2019 7:36:19 AM PST, Michael Dewey <lists using dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>I am planning to include a flow-chart in the vignette of one of my 
>packages (metap). I am planning to draw it using dot from Graphviz. I 
>know that there is Rgraphviz which would do the whole thing in R but I 
>do this sort of thing rarely and I suspect the overhead of learning how
>
>to do it in Rgraphviz would outweigh the benefit.
>
>So my question is: if I wish to be a good Open Source citizen should I 
>just bundle the .pdf file resulting from dot with the vignette or
>should 
>I provide the .gv file which generated it? I think from reading Writing
>
>R Extensions that in either case I just put them in the directory along
>
>with my .Rnw file but please disabuse me of that impression if false.
>
>The package will need to live on CRAN if that makes a difference.

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