Small inaccuracy in the Writing R Extensions manual
On 11/01/2016 11:59 PM, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
G'day all,
In Chapter 1.4 (Writing package vignettes) the Writing R Extensions
manual states:
By default @code{R CMD build} will run @code{Sweave} on all
Sweave vignette source files in @file{vignettes}. If
@file{Makefile} is found in the vignette source directory, then
@code{R CMD build} will try to run @command{make} after the
@code{Sweave} runs, otherwise @code{texi2pdf} is run on each
@file{.tex} file produced.
This does not seem to be quite correct as stated. 'R CMD build' seems
to run make only if there was a file in the directory vignettes that
Sweave successfully processed. If the directory vignettes contains a
Makefile and subdirectories in which the actual vignettes are, 'R CMD
build' does not run make.
I think it is behaving as documented: it says it will run make after Sweave, so if Sweave never ran, neither would make. But perhaps your suggestion is good: it should run make whether or not Sweave (or some non-Sweave vignette builder) was run. Duncan Murdoch