[R-pkg-devel] rhub (version 2) baulking at building a vignette.

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 August 2024 at 16:12, Ivan Krylov via R-package-devel wrote:
| В Fri,  2 Aug 2024 11:10:59 +0000
| Rolf Turner <rolfturner using posteo.net> пишет:
| 
| > The advice was to the effect that if the vignette was actually just a
| > *.tex file, one could (after putting in some preparatory code, in the
| > form of comments, before the documentclass command) pre-process the
| > file (with pdflatex) and the build would use the *.pdf file that was
| > created, without any processing being required.
| 
| I think that you are looking for the "asis" vignette engine from the

Or the zero-dependency approach by Mark van der Loo of embedding a whole
(pre-made pdf) in a five-line Rnw sweave file described in 
  https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/01/add-a-static-pdf-vignette-to-an-r-package/

So no real pdf processing requirement (besides the minimal include), so no
random failing over a .sty or font one uses suddenly missing on another machine.

Dirk

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