[R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.
On 06/03/2021 9:12 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 5 March 2021 at 15:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 05/03/2021 2:40 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote: | > Thank you. Glad to hear it's useful. | > | > This plain TeX/LaTeX vignette engine is implemented using base R. If | > someone is willing to drive the efforts, I think it's not too much | > work to refactor it and propose it for base R itself, where I think it | > belongs, | | What is your reasoning for this? As a former R Core member, I would say | the reasons for something to be added to base R are: | | - it's generally useful | - it doesn't have a lot of dependencies | - it doesn't work as well in a contributed package | | The first two conditions seem to be met, but what's wrong with leaving | it in R.rsp? Would something in base R be simplified by having this there? It feels like this is about the third time in a decade+ I have seen you two discuss the same issue. Henrik advocates a fine technical solution from his r.rsp package, you point out that there is benefit to keeping base R smaller, and solutions in add-on packages.
I don't really see it as a discussion. I believe you that it's (at least) the third time I've repeated the point that base R inclusions need more justification than "I think it belongs there" (not only to Henrik), but I don't recall the discussion ever continuing beyond that. Duncan Murdoch