Thank you everyone, I think I'll follow the technique used in Rcpp (dummy vignettes + Makefile). It would be great to have a mechanism to select the driver for vignette generation though.
Also, as a side-note, the choice of a driver has its own shortcoming; I cannot use the features of highlight and, say, pgfSweave in the same document. Sincerely, baptiste On 13 August 2010 11:10, Romain Francois <romain.franc...@dbmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been meaning to ask the same question before. > > Le 13/08/10 11:01, baptiste auguie a écrit : >> >> 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. > > This is what we do in Rcpp to build our 7 vignettes (since we like to use > the driver from highlight). > > One thing to have in mind is that R needs the .Rnw file to be present in doc > once the package is installed, so that the vignette function works, hence > some trickery in Rcpp. > > A way to control which sweave (and perhaps tangle) driver is to be used for > a particular vignette would be very useful. > > Romain > >> I have no experience in writing makefiles, so I'm hoping someone would >> already have solved this issue and could provide some advice. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> baptiste > > -- > Romain Francois > Professional R Enthusiast > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr > |- http://bit.ly/b8VNE2 : Rcpp at LondonR, oct 5th > |- http://bit.ly/aAyra4 : highlight 0.2-2 > `- http://bit.ly/94EBKx : inline 0.3.6 > > > ______________________________________________ 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.
