[R] package Utils Sweave Example Error
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Oct 17 15:43:22 CEST 2008
On 10/17/2008 9:24 AM, Thompson, David (MNR) wrote:
> (Question/suggestion inline below)
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]
>>Sent: October 16, 2008 02:17 PM
>>To: mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com
>>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>Subject: Re: [R] package Utils Sweave Example Error
>>
>>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:
>
> Does the Windoze convention of using "C:/Progra~1/" to represent
> "C:/Program Files/" not work in these situations?
No, it doesn't work. I think LaTeX doesn't like tildes in filenames any
more than it likes spaces. In fact, I think I got it wrong: we actually
insert something like
\usepackage{C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-27~1.2/share/texmf/Sweave}
But if we had inserted a path with spaces we would have seen the same
error message.
This is clearly a LaTeX or MikTeX problem, not an R or Windows problem.
The workarounds I gave appear to be the best solutions.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> DaveT.
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>
>>
>>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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>>
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