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

[Michael Dewey]

Thank you Dirk for the last point which has helped my grasp the 
implications of something in WRE which will help me go forward.

Michael

On 03/12/2019 16:17, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 3 December 2019 at 15:36, Michael Dewey 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
> 
> That seems like it is the appropriate move.
> 
> | 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.
> 
> You can use subdirectories in the source repository such that the sources are
> present in the .tar.gz but are not necessarily installed with the package.
>   
> Dirk
> 

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Michael
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