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---------- Original Message ----------- From: Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> To: Ulrike Groemping <gro...@beuth-hochschule.de> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Sent: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:31:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [Rd] Link to pdf documentation from other package ? > On 11/24/2009 8:06 AM, Ulrike Groemping wrote: > > > > Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > >> > >> On 11/18/2009 8:01 AM, ml-it-r-de...@epigenomics.com wrote: > >>> Ulrike Grömping wrote, On 11/18/09 13:28: > >>>> Duncan Murdoch schrieb: > >>>>> Ulrike Groemping wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Ulrike Groemping wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Dear developeRs, > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I have not found anything recent about how to link to a vignette or > >>>>>>>> other > >>>>>>>> documentation from within Rd-files. Is this now possible with the > >>>>>>>> new > >>>>>>>> help > >>>>>>>> system ? For example, I would like to link to the file AlgDesign.pdf > >>>>>>>> provided within the doc directory of package AlgDesign. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Yes, you can do it with a \url{} macro. Use a relative link, acting > >>>>>>> as though the starting page is located in > >>>>>>> /library/AlgDesign/html/*. So \url{../doc/AlgDesign.pdf} > >>>>>>> should work from the same package, > >>>>>>> \url{../../AlgDesign/doc/AlgDesign.pdf} from elsewhere. Please let > >>>>>>> me know if this doesn't work, I haven't tested. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Yes, this works, thanks! Is it also possible to display an > >>>>>> alternative text > >>>>>> instead of the URL itself, like with other links (e.g. show text > >>>>>> "Open pdf" > >>>>>> that operates the link) ? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >> ... > >> Within the dynamic help, you're also restricted in what files you can > >> link to: they need to be help pages, or files in the doc directory of a > >> package, or a few other special cases. > >> > >> Duncan Murdoch > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > >> > > > > Good that you mention this restriction, this makes me understand my new > > problem. With his new version of AlgDesign, Bob Wheeler has made the file > > AlgDesign.pdf into a vignette which is no longer located in the doc > > directory but now in inst/doc. A link to that file from within my > > documentation does not work any longer. Would it be possible to include the > > directory inst/doc into the special cases to which linking is permitted ? > > When you install the package, the contents of inst/doc would normally be > copied to the doc directory. Can you expand on why that doesn't happen > in your case? > > Duncan Murdoch ------- End of Original Message ------- I'm sorry, you are right, this hasn't changed anything, I can still use the doc link, I was making false assumptions based on the fact that Bob told me he had changed the status of the pdf and checked that inst/doc had it now but not that doc didn't. Regards, Ulrike [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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