From hb at biostat.ucsf.edu  Sun Oct 13 23:35:42 2013
From: hb at biostat.ucsf.edu (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 14:35:42 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Compatibility with R 2.15.x: Makefile for (non-Sweave)
	vignettes in vignettes/?
Message-ID: <CAFDcVCSGXYwiofaj1xFh4W-fPBYy5hRmFu2+1Qb_dB9pdDK3=w@mail.gmail.com>

In R 3.1.0 (~April 2014), support for vignettes in inst/doc/ will go
away (and probably much sooner for CRAN submission), e.g.

checking for old-style vignette sources ... NOTE
Vignette sources only in ?inst/doc?:
?R.devices-overview.tex.rsp?
A ?vignettes? directory is required as from R 3.1.0
and these will not be indexed nor checked

I've been sticking with inst/doc/ for backward compatible reasons so
that I can use a "fallback" inst/doc/Makefile for building
*non*-Sweave vignettes also under R 2.15.x.   AFAIK, it is not
possible to put a Makefile under vignettes/, i.e. it is not possible
to build non-Sweave vignette under vignettes/.

For backward compatible reason, I'd like to keep distributing my
packages on CRAN with non-Sweave vignettes available for R (>=
2.15.0), not just R (>= 3.0.0).  Does anyone know an alternative
approach?

/Henrik



[Rd] Compatibility with R 2.15.x: Makefile for (non-Sweave) vignettes in vignettes/?
Henrik Bengtsson