extractManuals           package:biocViews           R Documentation

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     This function extracts Rd man pages and builds pdf reference
     manuals from the 'man' subdirectory of R source packages archives
     ('.tar.gz') found in a local package repository.

     All Rd files found in 'man' will be extracted and used during the
     pdf construction process.  Only source package archives will be
     processed.  The constructed pdf files will be extracted under
     'destDir' and will be found in 'PKGNAME/man/*.pdf'.

     Prior to extraction, all Rd and pdf files in 'destDir/PKGNAME/man'
     will be removed.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     extractManuals(reposRoot, srcContrib, destDir)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

reposRoot: character vector giving the path to the root of the local
          CRAN-style package repository

srcContrib: character vector giving the relative path from the
          'reposRoot' to the source packages.  In a standard CRAN-style
          repository, this will be 'src/contrib'.

 destDir: character vector specifying the directory in which the
          extracted files will be written.  If missing, files will be
          written to '<reposRoot>/manuals'.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Patrick Aboyoun

