[Rd] Sweave vignettes and bitmap on windows

[tshort]

While I don't agree with it, this "feature" of bitmap is deliberate according
to Prof. Ripley:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/04/09/0682.html

- Tom

Tom Short
EPRI


Martin Morgan wrote:
> 
> During vignette generation on Windows, Sweave seems to clean up before
> all graphics files are completely processed. For instance, if tmp.Rnw
> is:
> 
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> <<>>=
> bitmap("afile.png")
> plot(1:100)
> dev.off()
> @ 
> \end{document}
> 
> Then:
> 
> C:\R\tmp>R CMD Sweave tmp.Rnw
> Writing to file tmp.tex
> Processing code chunks ...
>  1 : echo term verbatim
> 
> You can now run LaTeX on 'tmp.tex'
> 
> C:\R\tmp>Error: /undefinedfilename in
> (C:\\DOCUME~1\\mtmorgan\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\R
> Operand stack:
> 
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
> --nostringval-
>   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1126/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> Note Sweave finishes before the error message appears.  Adding
> Sys.sleep(10) appears to give ghostscript a chance to finish, and no
> error message is generated.
> 
> Are there solutions to this?
> 
> C:\R\tmp>R --version
> R version 2.6.0 alpha (2007-09-05 r42789)
> Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> 
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
> GNU General Public License version 2.
> For more information about these matters see
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Martin Morgan
> Bioconductor / Computational Biology
> http://bioconductor.org
> 
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