On 08/28/2013 07:38 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
Hi Martin,
thanks! Both of these sound doable, we'll explore. What was the third one?

To clarify, the intermediate form in option 2 should ideally still contain executable code chunks -- Rmd or Rnw, rather than md or tex. One drawback of this option (and of using roxygen2) is that others (e.g., Bioc maintainers trying to help out with routine maintenance, or the hit-by-a-bus replacement maintainer) trip over the intended work flow, e.g., updating the intermediate file rather than the org file, or spend time learning org mode (and emacs!).

The parenthetical comment came from passing some festive commentary through a civility filter -- option three is "don't do it!".

Martin


        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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