Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Oops, I said 'vignettes' but meant the reference manual. Html vignettes (from appropriate Rmd files) are have been available for a number of years. Martin On 9/25/19, 5:10 PM, "Martin Morgan" wrote: Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML rather than PDF

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:28 PM Stuart Lee wrote: > > Chiming in to say +1 to this. I also use pkgdown for the same purpose as > Laurent. With some kind of CI service you can automate the build of the > website after a successful R CMD CHECK. Not sure how tricky this would be to > integrate wit

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Stuart Lee
Chiming in to say +1 to this. I also use pkgdown for the same purpose as Laurent. With some kind of CI service you can automate the build of the website after a successful R CMD CHECK. Not sure how tricky this would be to integrate with Bioconductor's build system. __

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML rather than PDF vignettes; without that it would be non-trivial to create html output, e.g., links across pages. (I *think* the installed package html help pages are generated on the fly...) What is your experience with p

Re: [Bioc-devel] Error building Vignnette in Bioconductor Windows server when Submitting a new package

2019-09-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Often this means that there is some resource in your vignette that has not been terminated correctly, e.g., a parallel process that has not be stopped or a graphical device that is still open. Martin On 9/25/19, 4:46 AM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Alberto Valdeolivas" wrote: Hello all,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Laurent Gatto
I think this would be very useful. This is one of the reasons I create pkgdown sites for my packages: manual pages, news and html vignettes are readily available for all (including me) to browse. Best wishes, Laurent From: Bioc-devel on behalf of Ludwi

[Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Ludwig Geistlinger
Dear Bioc-Team, I repeatedly wondered whether it would be possible to display the reference manual as HTML instead of PDF on a package's landing page. This is already possible for vignettes. HTML reference manuals have at least two advantages: 1. links to functions of other package in the man

[Bioc-devel] Error building Vignnette in Bioconductor Windows server when Submitting a new package

2019-09-25 Thread Alberto Valdeolivas
Hello all, I am submitting the following new package to Bioconductor: https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/1263 R CMD BUILD is reporting the following ERROR when running in Windows server: Error: processing vignette 'OmnipathR.Rnw' failed with diagnostics: Failed to locate the '