[Rd] Problem Sweaving vignettes: MiKTeX's texi2dvi reports errors

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I get

> texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf=TRUE, quiet=FALSE)
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc7.2-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4)
output format initialized to PDF
entering extended mode
(Sweave-test-1.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8a> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, 
ngerman, dumylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
(C:\packages\MikTeX\tex\latex\base\article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(C:\packages\MikTeX\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
(C:\packages\MikTeX\tex\latex\ltxmisc\a4wide.sty
(C:\packages\MikTeX\tex\latex\ntgclass\a4.sty))
(d:/R/svn/trunk/share/texmf/Sweave.sty

LaTeX Warning: You have requested package 
`d:/R/svn/trunk/share/texmf/Sweave',
                but the package provides `Sweave'.

so my guess is that this a path problem with your MiKTeX and it is not 
finding Sweave.sty.

Simple questions: where did you install R?  Is there a space in the path?


On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Peter G. Warren wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a Bioconductor package. Everything installs and checks
> fine. Now I'm on my last step, which is to create a vignette. I'm trying to
> test the Sweave process, to make sure I can build a vignette. I am stuck at
> the texi2dvi stage, which fails when I try to process the example
> Sweave-test-1.tex file.
>
> I am using Windows binary R distributions, and have the same problem on both
> the latest developer version (2.2.0 Beta) and the latest patched version
> (2.1.1) . For the Tex processing, I first tried downloading and installing
> fpTex, but found that it doesn't have texi2dvi. Some Googling informed me
> that recent MiKTeX versions now have that function, so I just downloaded
> that (the small installation). Indeed there is a texi2dvi. The first time I
> ran it, it downloaded a class file it needed, so now it at least executes.
> However, when I try to run it on the test Sweave tex file, I get an error.
> Here's the sequence in R:
>
>> library(tools)
>> example(Sweave)
> [...output suppressed]
>> texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf=TRUE, quiet=FALSE)
> Error in texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf=TRUE, quiet = FALSE) :
>        running texi2dvi on 'Sweave-test-1.tex' failed
>
> [A command window pops up, and the following is from that window: ]
>
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc7.2-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4)
> output format initialized to PDF
> entering extended mode
> (Sweave-test-1.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8a> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, ngerman,
> du
> mylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (C:\MiKTex\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (C:\MiKTex\texmf\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
> (C:\MiKTex\texmf\tex\latex\ltxmisc\a4wide.sty
> (C:\MiKTex\texmf\tex\latex\ntgclass\a4.sty))
> ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
> <to be read again>
>                   \protect
> l.11 \begin
>           {document}
> ?
>
> [ Here, I hit a <CR>, and get the following:]
>
> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immedi ate help.
> ...
>
> l.11 \begin
>           {document}
> ?
>
> -----------------
> I have also tried running texi2dvi directly on the command line, and get the
> same result. I've looked at the manual on the MiKTeX site, but find nothing
> that tells me what may be wrong. The Sweave test file looks fine to me. I
> have also tried running texify --pdf on the same file on the command line,
> but get the same results exactly.
>
> I also went to the R-tools site, and went through their page on MiKTeX
> issues. Using their second suggestion (since I'm using the recent MiKTeX
> version, which defaults to e-TeX mode), I tried changing the mode for
> texinfo from e-TeX Extended to e-TeX Compatibility mode: no change in
> results. (I'm assuming that texi2dvi is part of texinfo package - please
> correct me if I'm wrong.) [I also tried changing texinfo from e-TeX to TeX
> mode, and rebuilt/reloade/refreshed, but this did not seem to take: texi2dvi
> still reports that it's in e-TeX mode.]
>
> Finally, I did try posting this to the bioc-devel list, and got some good
> suggestions (which I've tried, results above). They then suggested I move
> the question over here.
>
> Regards, and thanks,
> - Peter Warren
>
>
>
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