On 28 August 2013 at 09:01, Kevin Wright wrote: | Before knitr became an accepted engine for vignettes, I had a | knitr-generated vignette that I included in a package. It could just as | easily have been a Word file saved as a pdf. There was some trick to doing | this (which I have forgotten). Something like creating an extremely | minimal .rnw file and then including the vignette with the same name and a | .pdf extension. Search the R-help mail archives and you can find other | people who have included non-.rnw vignettes.
Sort of. Kinda. Maybe not quite. I think you may be assuming "constant requirements" at the CRAN side. They are anything but -- and to be plain, that is a Good Thing (TM) in the long run. The change to preferring vignettes/ over inst/doc/ is just one of many; there is also an ongoing preference for vignettes that fully reproducible from source. Which may eventually put an end to non-Rnw / non-(la)tex vignettes. Related rant: I really wish we had "CHANGES" file, or a section in the manuals. It is virtually impossible to look at a current "Writing R Extensions" manual, and a previous one, in order to get a succinct view of what changed. Having to diff the NEWS files, or glancing at commit logs via the RCS is a very poor proxy. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel