[R-pkg-devel] NOTE about lack of prebuilt manual

[Michael Dewey]

Short version

I have recently tried to update two of my CRAN packages and I am getting 
the NOTE from R CMD check --as-cran

Package has help file(s) containing install/render-stage \Sexpr{} 
expressions but no prebuilt PDF manual.

(It comes on one line in the check.log)

What am I doing wrong?

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More details

Both packages have lived successfuly on CRAN for some time but my recent 
attempts to update lead to the NOTE shown above. I notice that the 
version currently on CRAN do have in the tarball a directory called 
build which amongst other thing does contain the package manual. However 
when I build the updated versions the tarball still contains a build 
directory but without the manual.

I am using 4.4.1 under Windows 10. I open a command line and do 
everything from there with R CMD, I do not use any helper package. The 
help files do not explicitly contain any instance of \Sexpr{} but they 
do contain macros. Both of them use mathjaxr and Rdpack and one also has 
some macros written by me. They have been like that for some while. The 
Rd files are hand-written, I do not use any package to generate 
documentation.

I notice that R CMD build has an option to turn off the manual but I do 
not set that and there does not seem to be a turn on option. I have 
looked at the NEWS for R4.4.0 and 4.4.1 but withou enlightenment. The 
versions on CRAN were probably generated with R 4.3.3 judgin by the date 
when I made them.

I know it is only a NOTE but I would like to know why it is happening.

I hope that is enough detail to be helpful but I can expand on any 
unclear areas.

-- 
Michael