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Talk about manual generation #57

Open PabRod opened 2 years ago

PabRod commented 2 years ago

Problem

We teach how to generate docstrings. We show how to access them on the help panel. But we don't show how to generate a CRAN-style manual.

Solution

At least explain that this can be done, and show it locally.

Why show instead of asking the students to do it? Because it requires pdflatex, a requirement that is usually not covered.