[Debian-med-packaging] [devteam-bioc] How to create the documentation of BiocParallel

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Martin,

thanks a lot for this quick and helpful response

     Andreas.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:30:10AM -0700, Martin Morgan wrote:
> Hi Andreas
> 
> That's the reference manual, created from the files in man/ as part
> of the  R CMD build process with the command R CMD Rd2pdf
> BiocParallel/man/.
> 
> Usually  this file is removed by the build process. Here it seems to
> be a bug in R, where the package build process fails to remove the
> file when a package man page uses an \Sexpr{} markup tag.
> 
> Packages exercising this bug are
> 
> BiocParallel
> genefu
> predictionet
> RamiGO
> rTRM
> 
> I'll try to identify the underlying problem and forward to the R bug
> reporting system.
> 
> It would be appropriate to remove this file in your down-stream processing.
> 
> Martin
> 
> On 06/30/2014 12:30 AM, Maintainer wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >as you might have realised the Debian Med team tries to package
> >BioConductor modules for official Debian.  When looking at
> >BiocParallel I realised that the tarball contains a PDF
> >
> >    BiocParallel/build/BiocParallel.pdf
> >
> >which has no obvious source and rule how it was created.  Debian
> >ftpmaster is considering PDFs as "binary without source" and I would
> >probably need to remove the file which is not in the interest of our
> >users.  Could you give me some hint how to create this PDF?
> >
> >Thanks for providing BioConductor as Free Software
> >
> >      Andreas.
> >
> >
> 
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