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[R-pkg-devel] Should the LaTeX package pdfpages be available for use in vignettes?

4 messages · Greg Hunt, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Greg Hunt
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I want to incorporate a static PDF (created from LaTeX source separately
from the R package) into an R package as a vignette.  One approach I found
was to use the LaTeX pdfpages package, which works fine locally and on some
but is not present in all RHub environments.  Is the use of pdfpages a
viable approach?  What is the set of LaTeX packages that can be assumed?

I tried using R.rsp as an alternative but it did not work for me and I
stopped trying it because I had an approach that appeared to work.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 23 April 2022 at 18:05, Greg Hunt wrote:
| I want to incorporate a static PDF (created from LaTeX source separately
| from the R package) into an R package as a vignette.

I do that in several vignettes via a zero-depends approach described by Mark
in this blog post:

https://www.markvanderloo.eu/yaRb/2019/01/11/add-a-static-pdf-vignette-to-an-r-package/

Tastes tastes great and has zero calories!

Dirk
Greg Hunt
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Dirk,
I'd like to use that approach, its what I have coded already and minimal
dependencies are attractive, but it appears that the approach does not work
on all platforms.  I haven't finished checking, but so far using the RHub
API::

   - Solaris - vignette build skipped
   - check_on_linux: linux-x86_64-debian-gcc - succeeded
   - check_for_cran  - failed
   - fedora clang devel - failed
   - windows-x86_64-devel - succeeded
   - debian-gcc-devel - succeeded
   - fedora-gcc-devel - failed
   - Windows Server 2022, R-devel, 64 bit - succeeded

This inconsistency is where the question comes from and leads to the part
of the question that amounts to "what can I assume about Latex packages?"

Greg
On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 22:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 23 April 2022 at 23:02, Greg Hunt wrote:

        
| I'd like to use that approach, its what I have coded already and minimal
| dependencies are attractive, but it appears that the approach does not work
| on all platforms.  I haven't finished checking, but so far using the RHub
| API::

I see. Well that is largely irrelevant (at least to me) as it *will* work at
CRAN where the build environment is consistent for packages as described in
Writing R Extensions. And I generally skip vignettes in package checks in CI.

For RHub bug reports you need to contact RHub admins. This mailing list
sort-of covers it lacking other obvious venues but it is otherwise about
getting package to CRAN standards.

Dirk