Link to pre rendered html in packages vignette

[Dmitry]

Hi all! Is thare a way to create a link to pre rendered html documents in a package vignettes?
I've put my htmls to inst/research. And pass a link in my .rmd this way:
[research]('r paste("file://", .libpaths()[length(.libpaths)], "packname", "research", "research.html", sep = "/")').
As a result, the link is right, but it won't open on click, if i do right click and choose "open in a New tab", i See the link, but the documents won' t render until i select the adress and press enter.

Is there a way to make this links work fine? Or how to put htmls from /inst to /doc when the package is built?

Maybe there is a way to use a pre rendered html vignettes?

[maelle]

Yes one can use a pre-rendered HTML vignette (I'm therefore only answering your last question; I furthermore think it'll be easier to use "usual" package infrastructure i.e. vignettes). I've described a few approaches in a recent blog post on the R-hub blog. It depends on the reasons why you want to pre-render the documents.

• You could pre-compute vignettes following the approach described by Jeroen Ooms in an rOpenSci tech note. The gist is to call actual Rmd vignette source something like .Rmd.orig and to knit them to .Rmd. The .Rmd fake vignette sources have already executed R code. Therefore it can be used in the R CMD build/check process without creating errors, it can be knit rapidly.

• You could use purl & eval, as global knitr options. See for instance this GitHub thread. A chunk could be line the one from googlesheet

```{r, echo = FALSE} 
NOT_CRAN <- identical(tolower(Sys.getenv("NOT_CRAN")), "true")
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  purl = NOT_CRAN,
  eval = NOT_CRAN
)
```