[Bioc-devel] disappearing .tex file when running R CMD Sweave on a new vignette

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Triche, Jr." <tim.triche at gmail.com>
>> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 12:25:19 PM
>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] disappearing .tex file when running R CMD Sweave on a   new vignette
>>
>> I get a bizarre error when compiling a newly-added Methylumi
>> vignette:
>>
>> 10 : echo keep.source term verbatim (label = sessioninfo,
>> methylumi450k.Rnw:136)
>> Error in driver$finish(drobj) :
>>   the output file 'methylumi450k.tex' has disappeared
>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> do.call -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous>
>> Execution halted
>>
>> This is bizarre because 1) the file is still there, and 2) all the
>> heavy
>> lifting is done.
>>
>> sessionInfo(), etc. is included properly and the vignette concludes
>> with
>> \end{document}, but nothing I do seems to resolve this driver error.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>>
>
> Probably has to do with calling setwd() in the vignette? Maybe you need an on.exit() that restores the original directory. My guess is that you changed directory and then R can't see the tex file because it's in a different directory. See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12162092/r-sweave-output-error

tools::buildVignettes(), which is used by 'R CMD build', tries to
protect against this by always resetting the working directory after
weave:ing and tangle:ing a vignette, cf.
http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/tools/R/Vignettes.R.
tools::buildVignette() [no plural 's'], which is used by 'R CMD
Sweave' (which is what Tim uses), should also do this, but looking at
the code, this may only work properly if argument 'dir' is an absolute
path, which it may not be the case (not sure).  I've just submitted a
bug report PR#15530
[https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15530] with a
patch on this.

There may also be related issues in the utils::Sweave drivers (looks
like code running during garbage collection) - I'll let someone else
look into that.  But, undoing setwd():s in the vignette should solve
this, iff that's what behind this in the first place.

/Henrik

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> Dan
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> --t
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