[R-pkg-devel] Vignettes from LaTeX files.

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, e.g. in the 'utils' package where Sweave lives, or in 'tools'
where tools::texi2dvi() lives.  The vignette engine could be called
'utils::tex', e.g. %\VignetteEngine{utils::tex}.  To me it meets the
standards for reproducible documentation from source, although,
obviously there's no 'tangle':d code output.  If we want the latter,
we're getting into literate programming, and we already have several
vignette engines for that.

Just a thought,

Henrik

I have now tried out building vignettes from plain LaTeX source,
following the admirably lucid instructions provided by Henrik Bengtsson
in:

 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/R.rsp/vignettes/R_packages-LaTeX_vignettes.pdf

It all went unbelievably smoothly; no problems whatever.

I am deeply grateful to Henrik.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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