[R] Hmisc latex function

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 08:33 -0500, Charles Dupont wrote:
> Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > 
> >>I'm using R 2.2.0 on an up-to-date version of Fedora Core 4 with the
> >>latest version of Hmisc. When I run an example from the latex function I
> >>get the following:
> >>
> >>
> >>>x <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c('a','b'),c('c','d','enLine
> >>
> >>2')))
> >>
> >>>x
> >>
> >>  c d enLine 2
> >>a 1 3        5
> >>b 2 4        6
> >>
> >>>latex(x)   # creates x.tex in working directory
> >>
> >>sh: line 0: cd: â€œ/tmp/Rtmpl10983â€: No such file or directory
> >>This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> >>entering extended mode
> >>! I can't find file `â€œ/tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869â€'.
> >><*> â€œ/tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869â€
> >>
> >>Please type another input file name: q
> >>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/q.tex
> >>LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> >>Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> >>ngerman, b
> >>ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
> >>esperanto, e
> >>stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
> >>norsk, polis
> >>h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
> >>swedish, tur
> >>kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> >>File ignored
> >>xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: /tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869.dvi: No such
> >>file.
> >>
> >>
> >>How can I fix this?
> >>
> >>Rick B.
> > 
> > 
> > I get the same results, also on FC4 with R 2.2.0.
> > 
> > I am cc:ing Frank here for his input, but a quick review of the code and
> > created files suggests that there may be conflict between the locations
> > of some of the resultant files during the latex system call. Some files
> > appear in a temporary R directory, while others appear in the current R
> > working directory.
> > 
> > For example, if I enter the full filename:
> >  
> >   /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex
> > 
> > at the latex prompt, I get:
> > 
> > 
> >>latex(x)
> > 
> > sh: line 0: cd: â€œ/tmp/RtmpC12100â€: No such file or directory
> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> > entering extended mode
> > ! I can't find file `â€œ/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869â€'.
> > <*> â€œ/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869â€
> > 
> > Please type another input file name: *** loading the extensions
> > datasource
> > /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex
> > (/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex
> > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> > Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> > ngerman, b
> > ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
> > esperanto, e
> > stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
> > norsk, polis
> > h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
> > swedish, tur
> > kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
> > Document Class: report 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
> > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg))
> > No file file643c9869.aux.
> > [1] (./file643c9869.aux) )
> > Output written on file643c9869.dvi (1 page, 368 bytes).
> > Transcript written on file643c9869.log.
> > xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.dvi
> 
> 
> Hmmmm,  It works for me.  Interesting.
> 
> It almost looks like the temp dir is not being created, but thats not 
> possible because R does that.  It might be a Unicode issue with you 
> system shell.  Can you run this statement in R
> 
> sys(paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()),";",
> "echo Hello BOB > test.test",
> ";","cat test.test"))
> 
> 
> What version of Hmisc are you using?  What local are you using?
> 
> Charles

Hmisc version 3.0-7, Dated 2005-09-15, which is the latest according to
CRAN.

> sys(paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()),";",
+ "echo Hello BOB > test.test",
+ ";","cat test.test"))
sh: line 0: cd: â€œ/tmp/RtmpGY5553â€: No such file or directory
[1] "Hello BOB"


>From a bash console:

$ cd /tmp/RtmpGY5553
$ pwd
/tmp/RtmpGY5553


$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


On the creation of the sys() call, it looks like the backquotes are
causing the problem:

> paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()))
[1] "cd â€œ/tmp/RtmpGY5553â€"


>From a bash shell:

$ cd â€œ/tmp/RtmpGY5553â€
bash: cd: â€œ/tmp/RtmpGY5553â€: No such file or directory
$ cd "/tmp/RtmpGY5553"
$ pwd
/tmp/RtmpGY5553


According to ?dQuote:

By default, sQuote and dQuote provide undirectional ASCII quotation
style. In a UTF-8 locale (see l10n_info), the Unicode directional quotes
are used.

The See Also points to "shQuote for quoting OS commands."


HTH,

Marc