[R-pkg-devel] How to provide a finalized PDF file in a package?

[Gábor Csárdi]

Yeah, I agree that it would be the best to have something similar in base R.

Short of that, we could have a short piece of code that you could just
insert into your package, and it would declare the itself as vignette
builder, which just does the copying.

G.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:30 PM Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The R.rsp::asis and R.rsp::tex could easily be pulled out from R.rsp
> in a standalone package with zero dependencies.  However, it would be
> better if they could be brought into the 'tools' package.  This is why
> I never went down the path or making a standalone package (adding yet
> another package to CRAN).  These two vignette engines are lightweight,
> very simple, and does not add dependencies etc.  What stops me is the
> the amount of work it would take to prepare this proposal.  I worry
> there might be pushbacks because including a static PDF or static HTML
> produced in another tool discourage the developer from including the
> actual source document.  The R.rsp::tex engine is less controversial
> in this sense; it takes the true LaTeX source and builds a PDF
> vignette using R's built-in LaTeX tools.  Sure, Sweave can be hijacked
> for pure LaTeX vignettes, but personally I think that's a hack.  If
> someone is willing to prepare a proposal, I'm happy to help.  The
> essential parts for R.rsp::asis are:
>
> https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/R.rsp/blob/398d75ccc70a33b75c7cdaecef94a24be0dcbad0/R/xweavetangle.R#L177-L227
> https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/R.rsp/blob/398d75ccc70a33b75c7cdaecef94a24be0dcbad0/R/xweavetangle.R#L367-L372
>
> The R.rsp::tex parts need a bit more work to entangle from the rest of the code.
>
> /Henrik
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:01 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Right. Then you _only_ need to install about 5 GBs of software to copy
> > a PDF file. :/
> >
> > I guess if you already have LaTeX and you are sure that it will not
> > mess up your PDF, then this is another solution.
> >
> > Gabor
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 4:58 PM Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner using gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > One can use a Sweave vignette and simply include the real PDF with the
> > > pdfpages package, c.f.
> > > https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/blob/master/vignettes/Rcpp-introduction.Rnw
> > >
> > > cheerio
> > > ralf