Creating R package from github: how to disable building vignettes?

Question

I am trying to build a fork from an R package from github (this fork has a fresh fix ). Unfortunately, the compilation failed while passing TeX on my system when trying to create vignettes. I don’t want to set SW loads just to create vignettes that I don’t need. How can I disable their creation?

This is how my compilation ended:

> require(devtools) > install_github("patcpsc/rredis") Installing github repo rredis/master from patcpsc Downloading master.zip from https://github.com/patcpsc/rredis/archive/master.zip Installing package from C:\DOCUME~1\Tomas\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmpolel1d/master.zip Installing rredis Installing dependencies for rredis: RUnit --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://www.freestatistics.org/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/RUnit_0.4.26.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 194763 bytes (190 Kb) opened URL downloaded 190 Kb package 'RUnit' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas\Local Settings\Temp\Rtmpolel1d\downloaded_packages "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.0/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD build "C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas\Local \ Settings\Temp\Rtmpolel1d\devtools42062762938\rredis-master" --no-manual --no-resave-data * checking for file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas\Local Settings\Temp\Rtmpolel1d\devtools42062762938\rredis-master/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'rredis': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src * installing the package to build vignettes * creating vignettes ...Warning: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.0/bin/i386/Rscript" --vanilla --default-packages= -e "tools::buildVignettes(dir = '.', tangle = TRUE)"' had status 1 ERROR Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : pdflatex is not available Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi Execution halted Error: Command failed (1) 

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Wow, found! I skipped it because it is not specified in the parameters of the install_github function, but it accepts all other options of the install and build functions!

 install_github("patcpsc/rredis", build_vignettes = FALSE)