help files and vignettes
Ingmar Visser wrote:
Hi all, I'm writing a vignette for my package, and I would like to include some of the package help files in there as well. Is there an easy way of doing so? I tried using R CMD Rdconv to generate latex files from .Rd files but I am not sure how to include these into a .Rnw file (ie the vignette source). The resulting file from Rdconv do not readily compile using latex ... The other option I tried is to use R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean etc which will give me a latex'able file Rd2.tex, portions of which I can then include into the vignette source file. However, this takes quite some time given that I have 6 or so .Rd files. Especially when updating them, adding functions and so forth, this process of generating the Rd2.tex files and then copying and pasting into the vignette source is quite tedious. In short, is there a faster way of doing this? best, ingmar
You can wrap the resulting LaTeX files in
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[ae]{Rd}
\begin{document}
% \include{TheLaTeXFile}
\end{document}
Relevant files (such as Rd.sty) are available in .../pathToR/share/texmf
Hence you can \input or \include it in any other LaTeX files, such as
vignettes. And you can write Makefiles in order to process automatically.
Uwe Ligges