Create a vignette or article

Creates a new vignette or article in vignettes/. Articles are a special type of vignette that appear on pkgdown websites, but are not included in the package itself (because they are added to .Rbuildignore automatically).

Usage

use_vignette(name, title = NULL)

use_article(name, title = NULL)

Arguments

name

File name to use for new vignette. Should consist only of numbers, letters, _ and -. Lower case is recommended. Can include the ".Rmd" or ".qmd" file extension, which also dictates whether to place an R Markdown or Quarto vignette. R Markdown (".Rmd") is the current default, but it is anticipated that Quarto (".qmd") will become the default in the future.

title

The title of the vignette. If not provided, a title is generated from name.

General setup

• Adds needed packages to DESCRIPTION.

• Adds inst/doc to .gitignore so built vignettes aren't tracked.

• Adds vignettes/*.html and vignettes/*.R to .gitignore so you never accidentally track rendered vignettes.

• For *.qmd, adds Quarto-related patterns to .gitignore and .Rbuildignore.

See also

• The vignettes chapter of R Packages

• The pkgdown vignette on Quarto: vignette("quarto", package = "pkgdown")

• The quarto (as in the R package) vignette on HTML vignettes: vignette("hello", package = "quarto")

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
use_vignette("how-to-do-stuff", "How to do stuff")
use_vignette("r-markdown-is-classic.Rmd", "R Markdown is classic")
use_vignette("quarto-is-cool.qmd", "Quarto is cool")
} # }