[R-pkg-devel] Including fonts in an rmarkdown vignette

David

If you are ok to use one of the fonts available on google font, you could
use package gfonts (in Suggests):
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gfonts/vignettes/gfonts.html

As it will be ? inline ?, your document size could inflate (I guess it
could be an issue with CRAN) - if only one font, size should be ok.

Otherwise, you also could add a css chunk to import the font from a public
server - if no internet connexion, nothing will break.

David


Le 3 juin 2020 ? 08:46, Ma?lle SALMON via R-package-devel <
r-package-devel at r-project.org> a ?crit :

Hi,

I've recently seen an example of a package that provides its own fonts for
a vignette. See links in
https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/06/03/vignettes/#pretty-vignettes


In that same post I link to a workaround I saw on this list
https://www.mail-archive.com/r-package-devel at r-project.org/msg02921.html
for changing the vignette format based on the versions of dependencies.
Maybe something similar is possible for fonts (I have no idea).

Ma?lle.

Den tisdag 2 juni 2020 20:14:24 CEST, David Hugh-Jones <
davidhughjones at gmail.com> skrev:





Hi,

I'd like to build a rmarkdown vignette with my own choice of fonts ? I'm
pernickety about look and feel.

R CMD check will rebuild vignettes in the vignettes/ directory, and if
relevant fonts aren't on the build machine, it'll give a warning.

Here are the options I can think of:
* build vignettes on my machine and put them in inst/doc. Don't mention the
specific fonts in the Rmd file in vignettes/. So the file built by "R CMD
check" won't look quite like the pre-built version.  This might work, but
it seems against open source principle.
* put font files in vignettes/ and refer to them in the rmarkdown file. I'm
not sure how to do this.
* limit myself to the fonts preinstalled on win-builder or CRAN machines.
I'm not sure what these are

Has anyone got any advice or examples?

Cheers,
David

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