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build_vignette fails quietly if no knitr available #736

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build_vignette fails quietly if no knitr available#736

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@barryrowlingson
barryrowlingson
opened on Mar 10, 2015

I have a package with a knitr-built .Rnw vignette, pulled it to a new machine with the latest R and devtools. Build the vignette:

 > build_vignettes("./colloc/")
 NULL

Nothing happens. Hmm. Try command line:

 Error in loadVignetteBuilder(pkgdir, TRUE) : 
   vignette builder 'knitr' not found

Installing knitr fixes the build_vignettes call.

Could build_vignettes produce an informative message as R CMD build does?

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  1. hadley commented on Apr 28, 2015

    @hadley
    hadley
    on Apr 28, 2015
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    I just call tools::buildVignettes() so I'm a bit mystified as to why it doesn't complain.

    What do you think about automatically installing the vignette builder package if needed?

  2. hadley
    closed this as completedin d2bdbadon Apr 30, 2015

  3. lock commented on Sep 18, 2018

    @lock
    lockbot
    on Sep 18, 2018

    This old issue has been automatically locked. If you believe you have found a related problem, please file a new issue (with reprex) and link to this issue. https://reprex.tidyverse.org/

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    locked and limited conversation to collaborators on Sep 18, 2018
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