On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:01 AM, baptiste auguie <baptiste.aug...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear list, > > > I wish to use a specific driver to process an sweave document in the > inst/doc directory of a package. Specifically, I would like to use > either cacheSweave or pgfSweave to speed up the creation of the > vignette which requires lengthy computations. The same request would > also apply to the highlight driver, to provide syntax highlighting of > R chunks. > > In "writing R extensions" I see that during R CMD BUILD Sweave is run > first, then optionally a makefile can be used to process any other > files. It doesn't seem to leave room for a choice of Sweave engine, as > far as I understand. One option I am thinking of is to change the > extension of the source file to something like .Rnw2 so that Sweave > ignores it altogether, and then use the appropriate command in a > makefile. > > I have no experience in writing makefiles, so I'm hoping someone would > already have solved this issue and could provide some advice. >
If its just a matter of running the vignette offline then the Ryacas package uses an approach which does not require a special driver and is simple enough that it does not really require make files. See Ryacas.Rnw in the source: http://code.google.com/p/ryacas/source/browse/#svn/trunk/inst/doc ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
