On 14/03/2011 8:29 AM, Amos Folarin wrote:
On 14 March 2011 11:43, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11-03-14 7:32 AM, Amos Folarin wrote:
>
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
>>> To: Amos Folarin<amosfola...@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:53:57 -0400
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Problems getting html files out of R CMD check
>>> On 11-03-13 7:14 PM, Amos Folarin wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to R CMD check a package, however I have hit a snag. There
>>>> seems
>>>> to be a problem with the creation of the /html files (the only file
>>>> that's
>>>> constructed here is the 00Index.html). I've tested each of the .Rd files
>>>> independently with R CMD Rdconv, they all happily create html files
>>>> without
>>>> complaint.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> R doesn't build .html files any more unless you ask it to explicitly,
>>> e.g.
>>> using R CMD Rdconv.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Duncan, I guess much of the documentation "out there" still
>> indicate
>> this functionality.
>>
>
> If it's R Project documentation, you should tell us about it, and we'll fix
> it. If you're finding it on a third party website, consider it a warning
> about the reliability of the source.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
Yes, I stand warned. But perhaps a heads-up would be useful in the docs
(there is some information about this in the vignettes section but I think
it's worth including this in the documentation for "R CMD check" to prevent
confusion. I suppose implicitly you expect the html to be generated given
that the pdf manual is created at this step).
I don't really see the connection to "R CMD check". This was documented
as a change back in the NEWS file for 2.10.0, and as far as I know
nothing in the documentation suggests that .html files will ever be
produced (unless you ask for them). That seems to me to be the right
way to do it: document how things are in the main documentation, and
how things have changed in the NEWS.
R CMD check creates a pdf manual because sometimes that fails. We don't
have an HTML validity checker, so we don't try to check the validity of
our generated HTML.
Duncan Murdoch
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