R create reference manual with R CMD check
Another way is to create the reference manual directly using:
R CMD Rd2pdf mypackage
where mypackage
is the folder containing your R package code folder structure including the man
folder with your .Rd files.
For some reason I never get the reference manual during build or check in RStudio, maybe because I've missed a setting somewhere. But running the command like this works fine as well.
I had the same issue. It seems that when you click Build or Check in Rstudio (when using devtools), by default arguments of '--no-manual' are added to the R CMD options.
I solved this by manually giving the arguments in the R command prompt:
library(devtools)
check(cleanup = FALSE,manual = TRUE,path = getwd())
# without running the examples
check(cleanup = FALSE,args = c('--no-examples'),manual = TRUE,path = getwd())
In this case, a folder called package.Rcheck will contain the manual as package-manual.pdf
Also check for any errors in the output during the check. There might be characters that might crash the documentation.
R CMD check
creates a directory PACKAGE.RCheck
. In this directory you could find the file PACKAGE-manual.pdf
.