On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, hadley wickham wrote: >>>> Is there anyway to have my pdf documentation listed under vignettes >>>> other than making it a sweave file? >> >> No, a vignette is regarded as an Sweave file. > > It would be useful if there was a mechanism to allow arbitrary pdf > files to be included as vignettes. There are many other ways to > include R code/output in pdf files other than through Sweave.
I think you need to define `vignette'. I understand the usage to mean an Sweave file. There are ways to include other PDF files, and you can write your own index file. R can't do that for you as it cannot read PDF (it can read Sweave). >> I just tried this by adding inst/doc/foo.pdf to windlgs. If there is an >> pdf file but no .[RS]nw vignettes, the index is fairly useless but >> browsing is available. >> >>> I don't know if the sentence about pointers being created is true otherwise. >> >> It seems to be. > > A link to the directory where the pdf is located, only available in > the html version of help, rather stretches the definition of a > pointer. What is a link if not a pointer? What it actually says is Pointers from package help indices to the installed documents are automatically created. I am not aware of any other sort of `package help index', although one could arge the toss about Compiled HTML. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel