[knitr] Package vignettes: How to build package vignettes with knitr | /knitr/demo/vignette/

Guest *Ben Bolker* @ 2012-05-05 15:54:44 originally posted:

Any chance of bringing this up with R-core again?  Was your proposal ignored, or outright rejected?

Guest *Tyler Rinker* @ 2013-05-25 03:40:28 originally posted:

I tried out the HTML version of building vignettes with the reports package: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61803503/packages/reports_vignette.html. I liked it so much I added this as a report type people can build in the reports package. Thanks for working this out and getting this through CRAN. It was so easy. I'm hoping we see more HTML vignettes as you can do pretty nifty things with HTML vs other document types.

Guest *jeromyanglim* @ 2013-10-15 03:11:59 originally posted:

This is a great feature. In case it interests you or others I posted a question on StackOverflow on "How to get R CMD check to automatically compile R Markdown Vignettes?"
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19372260/

Guest *Christian* @ 2015-02-15 02:51:26 originally posted:

Thanks for explaining how to make vignettes with knitr. For some reason, mine is not yet working. I tried looking at the "Writing R extensions" sections on vignettes, but felt confused. I have written a vignette and I am able to compile outside of my package using knitr. I have tried adding a "vignettes" folder to my package and put my .Rnw file there. In the .Rnw file, I added the two lines you suggested: "VignetteEngine{knitr::knitr}" and "VignetteIndexEntry{}". In the "description" file, I added the two lines you suggested: "VignetteBuilder: knitr" and "Suggests: knitr". Then, I tried to do R CMD check as usual. Is there something I'm missing?

Guest *Alexandre Courtiol* @ 2016-09-05 09:31:47 originally posted:

"You have to specify the argument build_vingettes = TRUE when you install the package"
--> you have a typoe I guess: build_vingettes --> build_vignettes