From nashjc at uottawa.ca  Wed Nov  2 19:58:16 2011
From: nashjc at uottawa.ca (John C Nash)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:58:16 -0400
Subject: [Rd] overly long lines in pdf output of manual from package
Message-ID: <4EB192C8.8070301@uottawa.ca>

In re-factoring my optimx package, I'm finding that the pdf output has some lines that are
outside the margins (and there are warnings in R CMD check optimx). Clearly I can fix this
by editing the tex file that is generated, but the build infrastructure would still get
things wrong in automatic processing. So that gives rise to 3 questions:

1) How do I adjust the DESCRIPTION file to avoid too long a line (optimx uses a lot of
other packages). I can add \cr elements to the Rd files to control those lines, but
DESCRIPTION doesn't allow this.

2) Is there an option control that does the job? I've not found one in searching, but
could easily have chosen poor search terms.

3) To avoid running the whole of R CMD check to rebuild the manual, do I need to dig into
R CMD check to find the bits that just build the manual, or is there an option to Rd2pdf
to do this? I've found how to process a list of files with Rd2pdf, but need to add the
DESCRIPTION stuff.

Best

John Nash



[Rd] overly long lines in pdf output of manual from package
John C Nash