CRAN: How to list a non-Sweave doc under "Vignettes:" on package page?

Hi.

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:

I have the same question. I wish vignettes which are shown in CRAN and
the package documentation are not restricted to Sweave (or I missed
something in the R-exts manual?). What I did in the past was to cheat
Sweave by putting an Rnw document which is essentially a tex document
(I used my own functions to compile Rnw to tex).

How CRAN behaves and how the help package system behaves may be two
different problems. ?My question is specifically on how CRAN works.

To have inst/doc/ documents to be listed on the package's help page,
you can add an inst/doc/index.html file, cf. Section 'Writing package
vignettes' in 'Writing R Extensions'. You can use the following
index.html file as a template:

help.start();
url <- sprintf("http://127.0.0.1:%s/library/utils/doc/index.html",
tools:::httpdPort);
download.file(url, basename(url));
browseURL(url);

/Henrik

Regards,
Yihui
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi,

is it possible to have non-Sweave vignettes(*) in inst/doc/ be listed
under 'Downloads' on CRAN package pages? ?For instance, in my R.rsp
package I have a inst/doc/report.pdf (part of the source *.tar.gz)
that is not detected/listed. ?The PDF is not based on a Sweave
vignette but an *.tex.rsp vignette that is dynamically created via
inst/doc/Makefile. ?It is listed

(*) BTW, can the term "vignette" be used for any inst/doc/ document,
or should it be reserved for Sweave+LaTeX-based documents?

Thanks

Henrik