Hi, Thanks all, that was helpful. I believe it would be worth an extra footnote in Writing R Extensions, as such files are getting more and more widespread in practice.
Thanks, Baptiste On 11/09/2017 19:24, "Uwe Ligges" <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > Hi, > > If the images are also used for vignettes or Rd files, you can put them > in the 'vignettes' or 'man/figures' directories. Otherwise, please put > them in the top-level 'tools' directory, or a subdirectory of it. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > On 10.09.2017 00:15, Baptiste Auguie wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure what to do with README.Rmd; I followed Hadley's instructions* >> at http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/release.html but I'm getting a Warning from >> CRAN >> (missing figure files). Writing R Extensions does not seem to mention this >> particular way of generating a README.md file (and in fact, mildly >> discourages README.md, see https://cran.r-project.org/ >> doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#FOOT2). Here's what I've done: >> >> - top level README.Rmd file with knitr option fig.path = "README-" >> - ^README\.Rmd$ and ^README-.*\.png$ added in .Rbuildignore >> >> as a result, R CMD build creates README.md, and removes the associated >> figures and Rmd source file. However CRAN issues a Warning that the png >> files are missing. >> >> So my next step has been to remove ^README-.*\.png$ from .Rbuildignore, >> but >> that yields a NOTE: "Non-standard files/directories found at top level: >> ...<pngs>" >> >> I thought perhaps this should go in .Rinstignore, but that yields the same >> NOTE. >> >> What is the proper way to deal with these image files? (pointing fig.path >> to inst/ doesn't seem like an option either, as it will break the paths). >> >> Has there been a recent change in how README.Rmd files are processed? (I >> did not find this step documented in WRE). I looked at a few packages and >> they seem to follow the model recommended in Hadley's r-pkgs resource, so >> presumably it used to work without warnings. >> >> Thanks, >> >> baptiste >> >> >> *: I realise this is not an official documentation; however, from a >> pragmatic point of view, it would seem mutually beneficial if >> recommendations could somehow be kept in sync between this document and >> official CRAN policies. >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel