markdown vignette with the vignette command

On 22/08/2014, 6:09 AM, Leo Lahti wrote:

Dear list,

we have a markdown vignette for our package in vignette/vignette.md

This is not visible from within R with the vignette(package =

"mypackage")

command.

I assume the reason is that the vignette function only shows PDF

vignettes.

Is there any way to circumvent this and display markdown vignettes

directly

from within R?

I tried to seek the answer from R archives and search engines but could

not

find the solution so far.

If you are using a current version of R, it should just work.  For example,

vignette("knitr-markdown")

works for me when knitr is attached.  If knitr was not attached, I'd
have to list it in the pkg argument of the vignette call.

Duncan Murdoch