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build_vignettes

Build package vignettes.

Description

Builds package vignettes using the same algorithm that R CMD build does. This means including non-Sweave vignettes, using makefiles (if present), and copying over extra files. The files are copied in the 'doc' directory and an vignette index is created in 'Meta/vignette.rds', as they would be in a built package. 'doc' and 'Meta' are added to .Rbuildignore, so will not be included in the built package. These files can be checked into version control, so they can be viewed with browseVignettes() and vignette() if the package has been loaded with load_all() without needing to re-build them locally.

Usage

build_vignettes(
  pkg = ".",
  dependencies = "VignetteBuilder",
  clean = TRUE,
  upgrade = "never",
  quiet = TRUE,
  install = TRUE,
  keep_md = TRUE
)

Arguments

`pkg`	The package to use, can be a file path to the package or a package object. See `as.package()` for more information.
`dependencies`	Which dependencies do you want to check? Can be a character vector (selecting from "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", or "Enhances"), or a logical vector. `TRUE` is shorthand for "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo" and "Suggests". `NA` is shorthand for "Depends", "Imports" and "LinkingTo" and is the default. `FALSE` is shorthand for no dependencies (i.e. just check this package, not its dependencies). The value "soft" means the same as `TRUE`, "hard" means the same as `NA`. You can also specify dependencies from one or more additional fields, common ones include: Config/Needs/website - for dependencies used in building the pkgdown site. Config/Needs/coverage for dependencies used in calculating test coverage.
`clean`	Remove all files generated by the build, even if there were copies there before.
`upgrade`	Should package dependencies be upgraded? One of "default", "ask", "always", or "never". "default" respects the value of the `R_REMOTES_UPGRADE` environment variable if set, and falls back to "ask" if unset. "ask" prompts the user for which out of date packages to upgrade. For non-interactive sessions "ask" is equivalent to "always". `TRUE` and `FALSE` are also accepted and correspond to "always" and "never" respectively.
`quiet`	If `TRUE`, suppresses most output. Set to `FALSE` if you need to debug.
`install`	If `TRUE`, install the package before building vignettes.
`keep_md`	If `TRUE`, move md intermediates as well as rendered outputs. Most useful when using the `keep_md` YAML option for Rmarkdown outputs. See https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/html-document.html#keeping-markdown.

build_vignettes

Description

Usage

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