How do I convert Rd files to pdf for a package that I am creating in R?

Question

I am writing a package in R and I would appreciate some example bash code to process the Rd files to latex and then to pdf.

It is in the directory ~/mypkg/dev/. I h

Answer 1

I have created a basic bash function, so I can just run rdoc from my command line. It generates the Rd files, creates the pdf, and opens it. I only use it for testing, not for creating the final documentation. You can add it by adding the following function to your .bashrc (or whichever you use) file

rdoc() {
  echo -e "devtools::document()" | R --no-save
  rm /tmp/rdoc.pdf
  R CMD Rd2pdf -o /tmp/rdoc.pdf man/*.Rd
  open /tmp/rdoc.pdf
}