[Rd] Windows problem related to using shortPathName for Sweave style file
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Apr 10 21:14:43 CEST 2008
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Kurt Hornik wrote:
>>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley writes:
>
>> I suggest that we try to program a solution in Sweave. It only inserts
>> the path to the file is stylepath=TRUE in RweaveLatexSetup, so it seems
>> to be that
>
>> Sweave(stylepath=FALSE)
>
>> is all that is needed. That seems to work, although of course obliges
>> people to make sure Sweave.sty is in their latex input path (and using
>> texi2dvi makes that rather hard).
>
> Unless you do
>
> R CMD texi2dvi
>
> as this will add the R share/texmf to TEXINPUTS.
Unfortunately MiKTeX ignores TEXINPUTS and all such environment
variables. (I think MiKTeX 2.7 has a solution that was not in earlier
versions, which is to use texi2dvi --include-directory, which we already
use in doc/manual.)
>> Sweave is only used by R in three places, in
>> tools:::.install_package_vignettes which is only used to build the grid
>> vignettes, and tools::checkVignettes (used by R CMD check) and
>> buildVignettes (used by R CMD build), and none of which pass any arguments
>> to Sweave.
>
>> Here's a proposal. Instead of making stylepath=TRUE the default, set its
>> default from the environment variable _SWEAVE_STYLEPATH_DEFAULT_ . Then
>> all Patrick needs to do is to set this to FALSE and ensure that his MiKTeX
>> setup has Sweave.sty in a texmf tree.
>
>> That leaves the question of what the default should be if the environment
>> variable is not set -- I suggest TRUE unless the path contains a space
>> (since it doesn't currently work if it does and so is backwards
>> compatible).
>
>> That seems well below the limits of what is acceptable at this point for
>> 2.7.0, so if reaction is favourable we should go ahead.
>
> Personally, I always thought the default should be not to set the path
> and suggest to use R CMD texi2dvi.
>
> Best
> -k
>
>> Brian Ripley
>
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>
>>> Thanks Duncan,
>>> I just did a survey of the BioConductor repository and only 4 of the 354
>>> .Rnw vignette files contain the \usepackage{Sweave} specification.
>>> Adding this is tedious, but not impossible. If the \usepackage{Sweave}
>>> specification does become recommended, could you add a WARNING to the R
>>> CMD build/check process if a vignette file lacks it? That would help
>>> steer developers in the right direction for cross-platform compatibility
>>> since most R package developers don't use Windows as their primary platform.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>> On 4/9/2008 9:50 PM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>>>>> I forgot to mention the BioConductor Windows build machine is running
>>>>> Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
>>>>> Enterprise Edition, SP2
>>>>>
>>>>> I just checked and this same problem exists if I place R in the
>>>>> standard "C:\Program Files\R" location on this machine.
>>>>
>>>> We're going to roll back that change, so you should be okay with your
>>>> original setup. As far as I know there is no way to get MikTeX to
>>>> work if you have a space in your pathname, so putting R in the
>>>> standard location will fail, unless you follow the advice I give below.
>>>>
>>>>> For now the backup plan is to move to using short path names for
>>>>> BioConductor builds (modifying 100+ vignettes is impractical as well
>>>>> as configuring MiKTeX to handle multiple installs of R that the build
>>>>> machine uses). If there is an alternate configuration that I should
>>>>> be using, just let me know.
>>>>
>>>> I would recommend biting the bullet and adding \usepackage{Sweave} to
>>>> every vignette. It's just a one line addition to them, and it will
>>>> mean that their .tex output will work if you move it to a different
>>>> machine, where the full path to Sweave.sty is different.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Patrick
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>>> On 09/04/2008 5:23 PM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>>>>>> Something funky happened to my e-mail. I was trying to paste
>>>>>> information related to MiKTeX and R into my message and it appears
>>>>>> to have corrupted the text somehow. Anyway, the message I was
>>>>>> trying to get across is that the tex file contains the path
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> \usepackage{E:/paboyoun/BBS-2~1.2-B/R/share/texmf/Sweave}
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> and MiKTeX 2.7 doesn't know how to resolve it. (The
>>>>>> Bioconductor.tex file is (hopefully) attached to this e-mail.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should be able to get things to work by explicitly putting
>>>>>>
>>>>>> \usepackage{Sweave}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> somewhere early in your .Rnw file. You may have trouble with MikTeX
>>>>>> finding Sweave.sty, depending how you invoke it: if invoked from R
>>>>>> CMD it should work, but maybe not from your command line unless you
>>>>>> tell it where to look for include files. How you do that changes
>>>>>> all the time; R tries a couple, which is why R CMD probably works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> === BEGIN OS BLOCK ===
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> E:\paboyoun>pdflatex --version
>>>>>> MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.7.2987 (1.40.7) (MiKTeX 2.7)
>>>>>> Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2006 Han The Thanh
>>>>>> TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> E:\paboyoun>pdflatex Bioconductor.tex
>>>>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (MiKTeX 2.7)
>>>>>> entering extended mode
>>>>>> (Bioconductor.tex
>>>>>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>>>>>> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
>>>>>> nohyphenation, ge
>>>>>> rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
>>>>>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\size12.clo"))
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\psnfss\times.sty")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\hyperref\hyperref.sty"
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\oberdiek\hycolor.sty")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\hyperref\pd1enc.def")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\etexcmds.sty"
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\infwarerr.sty"))
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\hyperref.cfg")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\oberdiek\kvoptions.sty")
>>>>>> Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\ltxmisc\url.sty")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\bitset.sty"
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\intcalc.sty")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\bigintcalc.sty"
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\pdftexcmds.sty")))
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\kvsetkeys.sty")
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\atbegshi.sty"
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\oberdiek\ifpdf.sty")))
>>>>>> *hyperref using default driver hpdftex*
>>>>>> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\hyperref\hpdftex.def")
>>>>>> ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
>>>>>> <to be read again>
>>>>>> \protect
>>>>>> l.28 \begin
>>>>>> {document}
>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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