[R] pgfSweave-example not compiling

[Peter Meilstrup]

Thanks, that lets me move to the next step in figuring out what's
wrong with my document :) Funny enough that's not the first problem
I've had with Sweave and non-ascii characters.

Peter

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> OK, that is really helpful for diagnosis. In line 436 of your tex
> file, there is an NA, but it should really be this:
>
> }% this brace ends the effect of ‘include external’
>
> So the reason for LaTeX failure was this missing bracket }. And the
> reason for R to output NA here is most likely to be that in the LaTeX
> comment here, there are curly quotes, which are not ASCII characters.
> To solve the problem, you can either delete these non-ASCII
> characters, or tell Sweave that your encoding is not latin1, but UTF8.
> The latter way may not be directly possible, and this is why I brought
> up the issue to pgfSweave developers:
> https://github.com/cameronbracken/pgfSweave/issues/34
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Peter Meilstrup
> <peter.meilstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure, here's the generated .tex file:
>> http://pastebin.com/b9fTsr0h
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>>> Seems to be weird. I can run the example smoothly under Ubuntu with R
>>> 2.13.2. Could you also post your .tex file?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yihui
>>> --
>>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Peter Meilstrup
>>> <peter.meilstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to get pgfSweave up and running. Hopefully I can get it
>>>> working from within LyX, but first I'm just trying to get the simplest
>>>> possible thing (compiling one of the example files in the pgfSweave
>>>> package) to work. I'm using the example that comes in the pgfSweave
>>>> package unmodified, but for reference I copied it to:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/tW4RL6fs
>>>>
>>>> Configuration:
>>>> R version 2.13.1 on OS X (intel) 10.5.8
>>>> pgfSweave package version 1.2.1
>>>> tikzDevice version 0.6.1
>>>> MacTeX 2011 installed
>>>> tikz/pgf package version 2.10
>>>>
>>>> Here is what I tried; I copied the file pgfSweave-example.Rnw into my
>>>> working directory, created a "cache" dir and ran:
>>>>
>>>>> require("pgfSweave")
>>>>> pgfSweave("pgfSweave-example.Rnw")
>>>>
>>>> This did some computation and then complained about a missing bracket:
>>>>
>>>> ! Missing } inserted.
>>>> <inserted text>
>>>>                 }
>>>> l.439 \end{figure}
>>>>
>>>> After I dismissed this, it seemed to fail with various errors.
>>>>
>>>> make: *** [pgfSweave-example-boxplot.pdf] Error 1
>>>> Error in tools::texi2dvi(paste(fn, "tex", sep = "."), pdf = pdf, ...) :
>>>>   Running 'texi2dvi' on 'pgfSweave-example.tex' failed.
>>>> LaTeX errors:
>>>> ! Package tikz Warning: Some images are not up-to-date and need to be generated
>>>> .  [1
>>>>
>>>> Rerunning pgfSweave led to the same errors.
>>>> The process created a .pdf file, but in place of a figure it has the notice:
>>>>
>>>> "[[ Image Discarded Due To ‘/tikz/external/mode=list and make’ ]] NA  "
>>>>
>>>> Upon inspecting the log file I found this notice:
>>>>
>>>> ===== mode=`list and make': Use 'make -f pgfSweave-example.makefile' to generat
>>>> e all images. Then, re-run (pdf)latex pgfSweave-example. =====
>>>>
>>>> I tried following this instruction, but it also produced an error:
>>>>
>>>> bayanus-2:writing peter$ make -f pgfSweave-example.makefile
>>>> pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname
>>>> "pgfSweave-example-boxplot"
>>>> "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{pgfSweave-example}\input{pgfSweave-example}"
>>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
>>>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>>> entering extended mode
>>>> make: *** [pgfSweave-example-boxplot.pdf] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> I put the full R transcript at http://pastebin.com/aZECxKyP in case
>>>> that contains additional useful information.
>>>> I also put the contents of pgfSweave-example.log at
>>>> http://pastebin.com/LzZW1z3R .
>>>> Also pgfSweave-example-boxplot.log at http://pastebin.com/AF3TCCEK .
>>>>
>>>> What's going wrong?
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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