Minimum requirements for package submission
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
The change to preferring vignettes/ over inst/doc/ is just one of many; there is also an ongoing preference for vignettes that fully reproducible from source. Which may eventually put an end to non-Rnw / non-(la)tex vignettes.
I'm currently stymied by this. I was one who did the stub-Rnw trick previously - it would be unwise for the vignette for twitteR to be run truly dynamically as it requires someone's real credentials to process. Not a problem, I run it by hand before submitting and then use the stub .Rnw for the vignette metadata to get picked up by CRAN. With the move to vignettes/ over inst/doc, that hasn't worked. doh! Aside: If someone knows of a way to get a non-autogenerated documentation file linked on a package's CRAN page (other than URL, which is a possibility) I'd love to hear ideas. -J