Using a `distill` vignette on CRAN about distill HOT 1 OPEN

under pkgdown, I don't think the vignette format applies. pkgdown will use its own rendering and format to render in the website. See https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/reference/build_articles.html

Vignettes are rendered using a special document format that reconciles rmarkdown::html_document() with the pkgdown template. This means articles behave slightly differently to vignettes, particularly with respect to external files, and custom output formats. See below for more details.

So you can't really compare a vignette on CRAN and an article in a pkgdown website. The will look different.

Regarding your vignette, I looked at the source at https://github.com/ropensci/nuts/blob/main/vignettes/nuts.Rmd
You are using knitr engine for your vignette

vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{nuts: Convert European Regional Data in R}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::knitr}

https://github.com/ropensci/nuts/blob/e50280efc18410b582e9eb9478af52e1f9e9106c/vignettes/nuts.Rmd#L12

This won't take into account rmarkdown format. It will be different that rmarkdown vignette engine.

I would suggest you read a bit more about how vignette are created, and works with R Markdown. Here are some resources that can help

• https://r-pkgs.org/vignettes.html
• https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/r-package-vignette.html
• https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/package-vignette.html
• https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/06/03/vignettes/
• https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Non_002dSweave-vignettes

Currently you are asking to use the knitr::knitr engine for vignettes, which is the R Markdown v1 historical engine documented at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/knitr/vignettes/knitr-markdown.html. A few packages provide their own vignette engine like markdown or minidown which will use their own rendering and formatting.

Remember that for vignettes R Markdown provides html_vignette format, because CRAN has constraints on file size and how resources are found. Using a complex format like distill will require some checks about size and how to include necessary resources in the package.

Hope this helps understand the situation here.

from distill.