Rebuilding the SASmarkdown vignettes

To run these vignettes individually, change the output type in the YAML header to "html_document" (instead of "html_vignette").

These vignettes are not fully integrated into the R help system. In particular, you cannot find them through the vignette(package="SASmarkdown") function, only by clicking through the help(package="SASmarkdown") documentation.

CRAN's computers do not have SAS installed, so they cannot build the vignettes from their markdown sources. Instead the package is built from static HTML pages. There is some irony here in building a package for more literate programming from less literate sources!

Be that as it may, if you have SAS installed (and why would you have downloaded this package if you don't?), then you can build better vignettes.

Unpack the package tarball, or download the source code from github/Hemken.

Move the Rmarkdown (rmd) files from this folder (/doc/vigsource) to a new folder in the root of the package, /vignettes. Also move the DESCRIPTION file from this folder to the root of the package (replacing the existing DESCRIPTION file), probably updating the version and date information.

Finally, use your favorite build method to rebuild SASmarkdown from your modified source files.