On 2/23/2006 11:53 AM, hadley wickham wrote: > Section 1.4 of Writing R Extensions says: > > In addition to the help files in Rd format, R packages allow the > inclusion of documents in arbitrary other formats. The standard > location for these is subdirectory inst/doc of a source package, the > contents will be copied to subdirectory doc when the package is > installed. Pointers from package help indices to the installed > documents are automatically created. Documents in inst/doc can be in > arbitrary format, however we strongly recommend to provide them in PDF > format, such that users on all platforms can easily read them. > > Where are these pointers created? I have a package with a pdf file > (introduction.pdf) in inst/doc but I can't find a link to it from the > documentation (eg. from help.start() or help(package=...) > > Is there anyway to have my pdf documentation listed under vignettes > other than making it a sweave file?
A manually written inst/doc/index.html file will be linked into the help system. I don't know if the sentence about pointers being created is true otherwise. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel