[R] error possibly related to sweave, path, and spaces on windows

[Juliet Hannah]

Wow, it works! Thanks Erik. Your suggestion worked.

MikTek is indeed in the path, so I just modified the lines to:

  junk <- system(paste("pdflatex ",latexFiles[i1]),
                 intern=TRUE)

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
> On 08/21/2010 11:02 AM, Juliet Hannah wrote:
>>
>> I have downloaded a file that I don't know how to describe correctly.
>> It contains R code and Latex, and I should be able to reproduce an
>> analysis by running an R script in this folder.
>>
>> There is a line in the R script:
>>
>>   junk<- system(paste("/usr/texbin/pdflatex ",latexFiles[i1]),
>>                  intern=TRUE)
>>
>> that needs to be modified to run on my computer. I use WinEdt with
>> Miktek 2.6 Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can modify the
>> statement above to work on my computer. Or any other suggestions to
>> get it working.
>>
>> On my computer I see that pdflatex.exe is in:
>>
>> C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
>>
>> So I made the following modification.
>>
>> junk<- system(paste("C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX
>> 2.6\\miktex\\bin\\pdflatex ",latexFiles[i1]),
>>                  intern=TRUE)
>>
>> Maybe spaces are causing problems? Here is the error:
>>
>>> source("D:\\My Documents\\Coombes2\\Scripts\\runAll2.R")
>>
>> Writing to file buildRda.cellLinesFromPredictors.tex
>> Processing code chunks ...
>>  1 : echo term verbatim (label=options)
>>  2 : echo term verbatim (label=invokeMatchPredictors)
>>  3 : echo term verbatim (label=getLocation)
>>  4 : echo term verbatim (label=saveStuff)
>>  5 : echo term verbatim (label=sessionInfo)
>>
>> You can now run LaTeX on 'buildRda.cellLinesFromPredictors.tex'
>> Error in system(paste("C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX
>> 2.6\\miktex\\bin\\pdflatex",  :
>>   C:\Program not found
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>
> Yes, see the first paragraph of the Details section of ?system.
>
> You can also check your system path, I think MikTeX tries to
> alter it to include its "bin" directory.  Therefore, you might
> get by with just using "pdflatex" as your command in the system
> call.
>
>