[R-pkg-devel] MathJax for Rd files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 14/05/2020 5:46 a.m., Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:27 AM Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14/05/2020 3:30 a.m., Georgi Boshnakov wrote:
>>> The issue is not with Rstudio per se but that in devtools' development mode  help() is modified to show the Rd files in the source directory, as one would expect, but doesn't load the RdMacros. So, the issue appears when one is development mode.
>>
>> Yes, the error appears to be in the pkgload::load_rd_macros() function
>> here:
>> https://github.com/r-lib/pkgload/blob/1b1adc39628671f2ea4256f0bebcdb76e1f89f45/R/dev-help.r#L47.
>>
>> It doesn't look at the DESCRIPTION file to see if there's an RdMacros entry.
> 
> Isn't that what tools::loadPkgRdMacros() does there? I believe so.

Yes, you're right.  So it's not clear why the preview isn't working.

Duncan Murdoch