I may add two cents on that as we recently made this change in data.table.
Using markdown package instead of rmarkdown as a vignette engine reduced
burden caused by extra dependencies tremendously. Moreover it made package
to not even need c++ compiler, as knitr and markdown both (and their
recursi
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM Uwe Ligges
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> On 04.01.2024 21:23, Duncan Murdoch wrote:[...]
> > Users aren't forced to install "Suggests" packages. That's a choice
> > they make. The default for `install.packages()` is `dependencies = NA`,
> > which says to install hard dependencies (Im
I understand that this doesn't actually *solve *your problem, but would
like to offer an alternative perspective.
I often find that vignettes may be most useful as an extended form of
documentation. If you have a pkgdown site, you can use
`usethis::use_article()` to create an article which will no
On 04.01.2024 21:23, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 04/01/2024 11:43 a.m., Adrian Dușa wrote:
> (Moved here following Ivan's suggestion)
>
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM Ivan Krylov
wrote:
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>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 11:57:15 +0200
>> Adrian Dușa wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if it would be possi
On 04/01/2024 11:43 a.m., Adrian Dușa wrote:
> (Moved here following Ivan's suggestion)
>
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM Ivan Krylov
wrote:
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>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 11:57:15 +0200
>> Adrian Dușa wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if it would be possible to include an html static vignette.
>>
>> I would
(Moved here following Ivan's suggestion)
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM Ivan Krylov wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 11:57:15 +0200
> Adrian Dușa wrote:
>
> > I wonder if it would be possible to include an html static vignette.
>
> I would say that static vignettes are against the spirit of vignett
