[R-pkg-devel] System requirements of a vignette engine

[Uwe Ligges]

Pls write to CRAN using R-project.org.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 30.03.2020 01:09, fvafrcu using mailbox.org wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> inspired by Karl Broman`s reader on using 'knitr' with 'asciidoc'
> (http://kbroman.org/knitr_knutshell/pages/asciidoc.html), I wrote package
> rasciidoc some time ago.
> It is just a wrapper to knitr and asciidoc, which is a system requirement for
> the package. CRAN does not need to have asciidoc installed to build and check
> the package, although the package is pretty useless without asciidoc.
> 
> Now I have added a vignette engine to write vignettes using rasciidoc.
> And here is the problem: this engine obviously needs asciidoc to be installed,
> which is not the case on CRAN, so the package with the vignette engine fails the
> autocheck.
> Writing vignettes that cannot go to CRAN seems pretty pointless. Does that mean
> that writing vignette engines that do not rely on pandoc or LaTeX is pointless?
> Or is it possible to get system requirements for vignette engines installed on
> CRAN?
> 
> Thanks for your answers,
> Dominik
> 
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