Yes, 'C-c C-e l l' I think, but follow the pop-up, and everything should be ok.
On Feb 19, 2018 07:05, "Rainer Krug" <rainer_k...@icloud.com> wrote: > > > > On 19 Feb 2018, at 12:25, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 19/02/2018 5:47 AM, Michael Hannon wrote: > >> Thanks, Duncan. The files in question are Emacs Org-mode files, and I > >> think these are more or less isomorphic to Rmd files, but I haven't > >> used Org-mode in a long time, so I think the mapping (Org-mode ==> > >> Rmd) would be painful. > > That should be easy - you can export org-mode files directly to LaTex. I > haven’t used org-mode for some time, but I think it is Ctrl - C - E and > than follow the prompts (obviously in emacs). > > Rainer > > > > > > If they aren't LaTeX then they won't be able to masquerade as Sweave > files, so things are more complicated. > > > > I think there are two possibilities. The better but harder one is to > write your own "vignette engine". Section 1.4.2 of the manual describes > the process, and ?tools::vignetteEngine describes what is needed in your > engine. > > > > The other possibility is to manually edit an inst/doc/index.html file to > include links to your documents. They won't be treated as vignettes, but > at least users will be able to find them. The other disadvantage of this > approach is that you'll need to edit it for all vignettes, not just the > strange ones. > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > >> -- Mike > >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:20 AM, Duncan Murdoch > >> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> On 18/02/2018 9:06 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Greetings. The group that I work with has just started using the > approach > >>>> outlined in Karl Broman's handy primer: > >>>> > >>>> http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/vignettes.html < > http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/vignettes.html> > >>>> > >>>> to create vignettes for a couple of R packages. > >>>> > >>>> This works fine as long as we have a current Rmd version of the > vignette. > >>>> But > >>>> we have some old PDF documents that we'd like to include as vignettes > as > >>>> well. > >>>> I'd like to know if there's a way to include such PDF files as > vignettes. > >>>> > >>>> We *do* have the source files for the PDF files in question, but it > would > >>>> be > >>>> tedious to convert those source files to Rmd format. > >>>> > >>>> My first thought was simply to add the PDF files to the .../vignettes > >>>> subdirectory and run the devtools::build_vignettes() function > (mentioned > >>>> in > >>>> the Broman tutorial), but that doesn't work. I.e., the PDF files > don't > >>>> appear > >>>> in the list of vignettes for the package. > >>>> > >>>> And after running devtools::build_vignettes I see that there's a lot > of > >>>> additional stuff in: > >>>> > >>>> ...lib/R/site-library/<package_name>/... > >>>> > >>>> so I don't see any obvious way to "fool" R into using the PDF files > that > >>>> haven't gone through the whole knitr/rmarkdown process. (Not to > mention > >>>> that > >>>> such an approach would be fragile at best.) > >>> > >>> > >>> You don't say what format the source is, but if it is LaTeX, you just > need > >>> to add some comments at the beginning, rename ending in .Rnw, and R > will > >>> recognize plain LaTeX files as Sweave vignettes. > >>> > >>> See the Writing R Extensions manual, section 1.4. > >>> > >>> Duncan Murdoch > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Suggestions welcome. Thanks. > >>>> > >>>> -- Mike > >>>> > >>>> ______________________________________________ > >>>> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help < > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >>>> > >>> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To > UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help < > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation > Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. 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