[R] Sweave, Texshop, and sync with included Rnw file

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 03:09:20 CET 2013


On 13-01-09 3:25 PM, michele caseposta wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I am in the process of writing a book in Latex with Texshop, on Mac.
> This book contains a lot of R code, hence the need to use Sweave.
> I was able to compile Rnw files, and to sync back and forth from the pdf to the source Rnw.
> My problem now is that the book is divided in Chapters, and every chapter is in its own Rnw file.
> I can compile them from the main one (book.Rnw) using the directive
>
> \SweaveInput{chapter1.Rnw}
>
> The problem stands in the fact that like this I am missing synchronization between the pdf and the source Rnw. If part of text is in book.Rnw I can synchronize, but if the text is in one of the included files, it just doesn't work.
> I am using the sweave engine found in the following webpage:
>
> http://cameron.bracken.bz/synctex-with-sweavepgfsweave-in-texshoptexworks
>
> Has anybody succeeded in synchronizing with included Rnw files?

This is a problem addressed by my patchDVI package, available on 
R-forge.  You have a main file (which can be .tex or .Rnw), and put code 
at the start of each .Rnw file to indicate where to find it.  Then you 
just run Sweave on one of the chapters, and it automatically produces 
the full document.

The sample document here:

http://www.umanitoba.ca/statistics/seminars/2011/3/4/duncan-murdoch-using-sweave-R/

includes an appendix describing how to set this up with TeXShop.

Duncan Murdoch




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