Auto-generation of R API docs

[johnkerl]

Description

Apologies in advance if this was discussed at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/categories/q-a or https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues (I didn't find priors in my searching so far).

Given an R package and all its *.Rd files I want to find a CLI command (ultimately, CI-able) which will create corresponding .qmd files that can be listed within a _quarto.yml.

[The context is a multi-language repo which will have, in its _quarto.yml, sections including Python API (autogenerated from Python docstrings), Python examples (hand-written), R API (autogenerated from R docstrings), and R examples (hand-written vignettes). The question I'm posting here is about the third of those four sections.]

After looking through https://quarto.org/docs/computations/r.html several times I'm seeing that RStudio is the suggested venue -- what I need though is quite simply a command-line ability to produce .qmd files.

[mcanouil]

See:

• `pkgdown` in Quarto? #1591