Links to non-vignette documentation
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 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. Hadley