[R] Sweave

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I've never heard of 'Portable MikeTex'.  Is this (Portable) MiKTeX?

What you are doing wrong is declaring texidvi to be pdflatex, and it 
simply is not.  I think what you actually want is to include the 
MiKTeX bin directory in your path, or to set options(texi2dvi=) to the 
path to texi2dvi.exe (and that may still require the MiKTeX bin 
directory in the path).


On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, R Heberto Ghezzo, Dr wrote:

> Hello, I am trying to start using Sweave. I copy the example from help Sweave
>
> 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)
>     ## This can be compiled to PDF by
> tools::texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf=TRUE)
>
> and I get:
>
>> 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'
>
>> tools::texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf=TRUE)
> texify: -interaction=nonstopmode: unknown option
> Error in tools::texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf = TRUE) :
>  unable to run E:\PortableUSB/PortableApps/MikeTex/miktex/bin/texi2dvi.exe on 'Sweave-test-1.tex'
>>
> I  installed Portable MikeTex in E:/PortableUSB/PortableApps/MikeText
> I modified Rprofile.site with
>
> .First <- function() {
> Sys.setenv("JAGS_HOME"=replace.substring.wild(R.home(), "R-*", "JAGS-1.0.3"))
> Sys.setenv("LATEX"=replace.substring.wild(R.home(),"R*","PortableUSB/PortableApps/MikeTex/miktex/bin/latex.exe"))
> Sys.setenv("PDFLATEX"=replace.substring.wild(R.home(),"R*","PortableUSB/PortableApps/MikeTex/miktex/bin/texi2dvi.exe"))
> }
>
> Can somebody tell me what other environmental variables to add? or what I am doing wrong?
> Thanks
> Heberto Ghezzo
> McGill University
> Montreal - Canada
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