Links to non-vignette documentation
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, hadley wickham wrote:
Is there anyway to have my pdf documentation listed under vignettes other than making it a sweave file?
No, a vignette is regarded as an Sweave file.
It would be useful if there was a mechanism to allow arbitrary pdf files to be included as vignettes. There are many other ways to include R code/output in pdf files other than through Sweave.
I think you need to define `vignette'. I understand the usage to mean an Sweave file. There are ways to include other PDF files, and you can write your own index file. R can't do that for you as it cannot read PDF (it can read Sweave).
I just tried this by adding inst/doc/foo.pdf to windlgs. If there is an pdf file but no .[RS]nw vignettes, the index is fairly useless but browsing is available.
I don't know if the sentence about pointers being created is true otherwise.
It seems to be.
A link to the directory where the pdf is located, only available in the html version of help, rather stretches the definition of a pointer.
What is a link if not a pointer? What it actually says is
Pointers from package help indices to the installed
documents are automatically created.
I am not aware of any other sort of `package help index', although one
could arge the toss about Compiled HTML.
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