[Rd] Problem Sweaving vignettes: MiKTeX's texi2dvi reports errors
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 17:31:40 CEST 2005
I have R installed in c:\Program Files\R and I use MiKTeX and texi2dvi
to process my vignettes. I do keep my package sources elsewhere;
e.g. I would keep the source for mypkg in c:\Rpkgs\mypkg .
and I would install it into c:\Rpkg\library or once I am ready to use it
in production into e.g. c:\Program Files\R\rw2011pat\library
thus I don't think its necessary to relocate R itself.
On 10/3/05, Peter G. Warren <peter.warren at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi, Prof. Ripley,
>
> Yes, indeed, that was my problem - thank you! I made the mistake of
> installing in the default path of C:\Program Files\R. I just now reinstalled
> in C:\R, and everything worked fine. However, if anyone else runs into this,
> you cannot just go off and run texi2dvi on an existing .tex file after
> installing in a non-space path: you should rerun the whole Sweave example,
> which forces a number of additional required items to be downloaded. Let
> that process complete, then rerun again. It works fine! The finished pdf
> file sure looks sweet.
>
> Thank you again!
>
> Regards,
> = Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 3:01 PM
> To: Peter G. Warren
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem Sweaving vignettes: MiKTeX's texi2dvi reports
> errors
>
> 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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> >
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>
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