I naively thought it would be able to examine the compressed file, Thanks for your answer :)
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 12-11-04 8:50 AM, Pierrick Bruneau wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> From the currently available version of the package VBmix, I would like >>> to >>> >> retrieve the intermediate .tex file that generates the VBmix-manual.pdf >> file. >> Formerly, running R CMD check with --no-clean allowed to get this tex >> source from a hidden directory : this feature was removed, but can >> apparently still be accessed through R CMD Rd2pdf --no-clean. >> >> Surprisingly, while the manual generation runs with no warnings when >> issuing "R CMD check --as-cran VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", >> "R CMD Rd2pdf VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz" collapses under warnings, until it >> simply >> > > A tar.gz file is not an Rd file. The help for Rd2pdf says it accepts the > files in these ways: > > Generate PDF output from the Rd sources specified by files, by > either giving the paths to the files, or the path to a directory with > the sources of a package, or an installed package. > > So you need to untar the file and specify the directory for it, you can't > use a tar.gz file here. > > Duncan Murdoch > > freezes... >> A sample : >> VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30918: unexpected '{' >> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment = >> FALSE, : >> VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30921: unexpected '}' >> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment = >> FALSE, : >> VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30929: unexpected '{' >> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment = >> FALSE, : >> VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz:30932: unexpected '}' >> Warning in parse_Rd("VBmix_0.2.9.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment = >> FALSE, : >> >> >> Rd files are encoded as regular ASCII text, I cannot get what is going >> wrong... Any idea ? >> Thanks by advance for your help. >> >> Pierrick Bruneau >> Research Associate >> CRP Gabriel Lippmann (Luxemburg) >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.