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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grömping
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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
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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
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