[R] Working comfortably with (X)Emacs + Sweave

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:41:18PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 07:11:01PM +0200, Tamas Papp wrote:
> > I would appreciate if people told me how they solve these problems or
> > have found any other way to make Xemacs more comfortable. A
> > "call sweave and then latex on this file in one go" and "show the DVI
> > that was produced from this Rnw file" command would be very
> > useful. Emacs init.el files and similar would help a lot, too.
> 
> Excellent question. Below is my pedestrian answer. I edit in XEmacs,
> and then call this shellscript. You could also bind it to what gets 
> called from latex/auctex when you 'compile' the input file.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash -e
> 
> function errorexit () {
>     echo "Error: $1"
>     exit 1
> }	
> 
> function filetest () {
>     if [ ! -f $1 ]; then
>        errorexit "File $1 not found"
>     fi
>     return 0
> }
> 		       
> 	       
> if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
>     errorexit "Need to specify argument file"
> fi
> 			   
> 		   
> BASENAME=$(basename $1 .Rnw)
> 			   
> RNWFILE=$BASENAME.Rnw
> filetest $RNWFILE
> echo "library(tools); Sweave(\"$RNWFILE\")" \
>       | Rterm --no-save --no-restore --slave
> 			       
> LATEXFILE=$BASENAME.tex
> filetest $LATEXFILE && pdflatex $LATEXFILE
> 			       
> PDFFILE=$BASENAME.pdf
> filetest $PDFFILE && acroread 

Sorry - the last line lacks "$PDFFILE &" missing, and I forgot to mention
that this is the Cygwin version of the script, where acroread is another
wrapper that calls the pdf viewer. A Unix version would use R instead of
Rterm.

Dirk


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