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Message-ID: <CADfFDC4rSrnqcWQraFjTYyvA-bF-fiH=QkHcQQiTviMq4-orww@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2022-04-15T17:16:00Z
From: Deepayan Sarkar
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Single page reference manual in html format
In-Reply-To: <CABFfbXtcZF8WfDu+qK30pUof01b9SFkEdTd5exw5=DjpiC49nQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 8:35 PM Jeroen Ooms <jeroen at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to generate the package reference manual in a (one
> page) html format? It would be nice to access reference manuals from
> devices without a pdf reader.

I don't think so, but it would certainly be a nice feature to have.

Most of the necessary code is already there, so it shouldn't be too
difficult. We'll work on it.

Best,
-Deepayan

> We can use `R CMD Rd2pdf {pkgdir}` to generate the reference manual in
> pdf format, but afaict `R CMD Rd2text` and `R CMD rdconv` only convert
> single Rd files, and do not support generating a full package
> reference manual.
>
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