[R-pkg-devel] Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called 'formatR'

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13/11/2020 4:32 p.m., Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:02 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Things may have changed since Henrik and I wrote the code, but his
>> description matches my understanding as well (and I think he's
>> contributed more recently than I have).
>>
>> The way non-Sweave vignettes work is that some packages register
>> themselves to recognize vignette files in the vignettes directory.  The
>> default one recognizes .Rnw files as vignettes (and a few other
>> extensions too); the knitr::rmarkdown one recognizes .Rmd files and some
>> others.  The only way for a package's registration code to be called is
>> for it to be listed as a VignetteBuilder.  See ?tools::vignetteEngine
>> for details of the engine.
> 
> Can one of you please fix WRE then? The part that says
> 
> "...then knitr provides the engine but both knitr and rmarkdown are
> needed for using it, so both these packages need to be in the
> ‘VignetteBuilder’ field..."
> 

No, neither of us are members of R Core.  Only R Core can edit the manuals.

Duncan Murdoch