Re: [R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes

2019-08-30 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
o: Michael Dewey Cc: List r-package-devel Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes At the cost of some level of reproducibility, you could use a static vignette and be very clear about the package versions used in the comparisons: http://www.markvanderloo.eu/yaRb/2019/01/11/ad

Re: [R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes

2019-08-30 Thread Mark van der Loo
At the cost of some level of reproducibility, you could use a static vignette and be very clear about the package versions used in the comparisons: http://www.markvanderloo.eu/yaRb/2019/01/11/add-a-static-pdf-vignette-to-an-r-package/ As this does diminish the coherence of CRAN somewhat I'm not re

Re: [R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes

2019-08-30 Thread Michael Dewey
Comments in-line On 30/08/2019 14:59, Iñaki Ucar wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 15:26, J C Nash wrote: I'm seeking some general advice about including vignettes in my packages, which are largely for nonlinear estimation and function minimization (optimization). This means that my packages off

Re: [R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes

2019-08-30 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 15:26, J C Nash wrote: > > I'm seeking some general advice about including vignettes in my packages, > which are largely for nonlinear estimation and function minimization > (optimization). > This means that my packages offer alternatives to many other tools, and the > use

[R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes

2019-08-30 Thread J C Nash
I'm seeking some general advice about including vignettes in my packages, which are largely for nonlinear estimation and function minimization (optimization). This means that my packages offer alternatives to many other tools, and the user then has the chore of deciding which is appropriate. Bad c