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help files and vignettes

4 messages · Ingmar Visser, Uwe Ligges

Ingmar Visser
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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
Uwe Ligges
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Ingmar Visser wrote:
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
Ingmar Visser
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Hi Uwe,
Thanks for that answer. However, one thing remains unclear, which latex file
do I use here, ie the one generated from Rdconv, or the one generated as an
intermediate step in Rd2dvi?
In the latter case, wouldn't I get a double \documentclass statement and the
like?
thanks in advance, ingmar
On 4/29/05 7:48 AM, "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Ingmar Visser wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
I meant the one generated from Rdconv.

Uwe