Hi Martin,
thanks! Both of these sound doable, we'll explore. What was the third one?
Best wishes, Wolfgang
On 28 Aug 2013, at 14:28, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 02:50 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> is there already a best practice (example?) for how to deliver vignettes
>> written in org-mode (http://orgmode.org) in Bioconductor packages?
>
> Three possibilities come to mind.
>
> Implement the equivalent of the knitr package, preferably without external
> dependencies (sounds like a fun exercise ;)) and simply add the package to
> the VignetteBuilder: tag to the DESCRIPTION file (as in Writing R Extensions).
>
> Do the two-step of transforming org-mode to an intermediate form, e.g.,
> markdown, then using standard tools. The transformation would be the
> maintainer's responsibility, prior to svn commit. This is essentially how
> roxygen2 is being used for man pages.
>
> (Even as an emacs user I find it weird to tie documentation to an
> application.)
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> (This would also require that emacs and its ESS and org modes are installed
>> on the build servers.)
>>
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