[R-pkg-devel] Issue with including vignettes without building package
Thanks but I don't think so, that would imply them to rebuild the vignettes, which is exactly what I want to avoid. Without knitr cached chunk it would take forever on their laptops and they would also need to install tons of packages... ++
On 20 April 2017 at 21:01, Sven E Templer <sven.templer at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Alex, what if you run devtools::install_github(build_vignettes = TRUE) on your students computer? See ?devtools::install Best, Sven
On 20. Apr 2017, at 15:09, Alexandre Courtiol <
alexandre.courtiol at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all, I am using a package for teaching: my slides are html vignettes, and it is convenient for students to
control
which packages they must install, provide code and datasets. As I am often editing the package live during the course, it would be
great
if I could just push to github and that the student would just have to
run
a devtools::install_github() to get my updated vignettes. I would rather not to have to build the package before pushing to save time. The issues is that I do not want to build the vignettes on install as
they
are very slow to build. On my computer however it is quick because I have cached the knitr chunks output. So I was hoping to just have to run devtools::build_vignettes() on my machine before pushing the files
thereby
created (./inst/doc) and that the student could just devtools::install_github(). I cannot make this work: no vignettes are found after install. When I do check the repository beeing installed on their computers, the html, Rmd
and
R files corresponding to the vignettes are present in ./doc, so it is not an issue of having the wrong .gitgnore configuration. I have read about many vignettes related issues on the net, but I did not find something dealing with this precise issue. PS: I know about the R.rsp hack, but I would prefer to find a solution
more
direct. Best, Alex -- Alexandre Courtiol http://sites.google.com/site/alexandrecourtiol/home *"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"*, R. Feynman [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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