[R] Sweave working now!!!

[Felipe Carrillo]

Duncan:
I installed R in C:\R\R-2.7.2 and worked beautifully. I hope this will help others with the same problem. Thanks a lot for your help.



--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> On 10/16/2008 12:19 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote:
> > This is my sessionInfo() and
> Sys.getenv("PATH") 
> > 
> >   library(tools)
> > testfile <- system.file("Sweave",
> "Sweave-test-1.Rnw", package = "utils")
> > ## enforce par(ask=FALSE)
> > options(device.ask.default=FALSE)
> > ## create a LaTeX file
> > Sweave(testfile)
> > Writing to file Sweave-test-1.tex
> > Processing code chunks ...
> >  1 : print term verbatim
> >  2 : term hide
> >  3 : echo print term verbatim
> >  4 : term verbatim
> >  5 : echo term verbatim
> >  6 : echo term verbatim eps pdf
> >  7 : echo term verbatim eps pdf
> > 
> > You can now run LaTeX on 'Sweave-test-1.tex'
> > ## This can be compiled to PDF by
> > texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex",
> pdf=TRUE,quiet=FALSE)
> > 
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
> > entering extended mode
> > ("C:/Program
> Files/R/R-2.7.2/bin/Sweave-test-1.tex"
> > LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> > Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for
> english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
> > rman, ngerman, german-x-2008-06-18,
> ngerman-x-2008-06-18, 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\size10.clo"))
> > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
> 2.7\tex\latex\ltxmisc\a4wide.sty"
> > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
> 2.7\tex\latex\ntgclass\a4.sty"))
> > ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
> > <to be read again> 
> >                    \protect 
> > l.11 \begin
> >            {document}
> > ? pdflatex.EXE: Bad file descriptor
> 
> 
> This appears to be the problem.  I'm not certain, but I
> would guess if 
> you look in the "C:/Program
> Files/R/R-2.7.2/bin/Sweave-test-1.tex" file 
> you'll see a line something like this:
> 
> \usepackage{C:/Program
> Files/R/R-2.7.2/share/texmf/Sweave}
> 
> That line (which was added by Sweave) will not work,
> because LaTeX does 
> not understand blanks in file paths.  There are a couple of
> workarounds:
> 
> 1.  Install R in a directory that doesn't contain
> blanks.
> 
> 2.  Include \usepackage{Sweave} in the Rnw file
> you're processing; this 
> will stop Sweave from adding anything.  I believe we set
> things up so 
> that MikTeX will find it in the right place (though I
> don't normally use 
> texi2dvi, so I'm not sure).
> 
> To test this, you can just go and edit the
> Sweave-test-1.tex file now, 
> replacing the long line with the short version.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > texify: pdflatex failed for some reason (see log
> file).
> > Error in texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf =
> TRUE, quiet = FALSE) : 
> >   running 'texi2dvi' on
> 'Sweave-test-1.tex' failed
> > 
> > sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) 
> > i386-pc-mingw32 
> > 
> > locale:
> > LC_COLLATE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils    
> datasets  methods   base     
> >> Sys.getenv("PATH") 
> > PATH
> > "C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX
> 2.7\\miktex\\bin;C:\\GTK\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Program
> Files\\SYSTAT 10\\;C:\\Program
> Files\\SYSTAT
> 10\\XGRAPH\\;C:\\Program
> Files\\Wave Systems Corp\\Dell Preboot
> Manager\\Access
> Client\\v5\\;C:\\Program
> Files\\ATI
> Technologies\\ATI.ACE\\Core-Static;c:\\Program
> Files\\Microsoft SQL
> Server\\90\\Tools\\binn\\"
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > Felipe D. Carrillo  
> > Supervisory Fishery Biologist  
> > Department of the Interior  
> > US Fish & Wildlife Service  
> > California, USA
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> Try running it as
> texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex",
> >> pdf=TRUE, quiet=FALSE), 
> >> and post the list of error messages.
> >> 
> >> You should also show us the results of
> sessionInfo() and 
> >> Sys.getenv("PATH"), and tell us which
> version of
> >> LaTeX you have installed.
> >> 
> >> Duncan Murdoch
> >> > 
> >> >
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