On 05/03/2021 2:40 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Thank you. Glad to hear it's useful.
This plain TeX/LaTeX vignette engine is implemented using base R. If
someone is willing to drive the efforts, I think it's not too much
work to refactor it and propose it for base R itself, where I think it
belongs,
What is your reasoning for this? As a former R Core member, I would say
the reasons for something to be added to base R are:
- it's generally useful
- it doesn't have a lot of dependencies
- it doesn't work as well in a contributed package
The first two conditions seem to be met, but what's wrong with leaving
it in R.rsp? Would something in base R be simplified by having this there?
Duncan
e.g. in the 'utils' package where Sweave lives, or in 'tools'
where tools::texi2dvi() lives. The vignette engine could be called
'utils::tex', e.g. %\VignetteEngine{utils::tex}. To me it meets the
standards for reproducible documentation from source, although,
obviously there's no 'tangle':d code output. If we want the latter,
we're getting into literate programming, and we already have several
vignette engines for that.
Just a thought,
Henrik
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 7:20 PM Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
I have now tried out building vignettes from plain LaTeX source,
following the admirably lucid instructions provided by Henrik Bengtsson
in:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/R.rsp/vignettes/R_packages-LaTeX_vignettes.pdf
It all went unbelievably smoothly; no problems whatever.
I am deeply grateful to Henrik.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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