[Rd] Sweave choking on \\ in filename

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 29/11/2010 8:07 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sweave chokes when using "\\" in the path to the Rnw file. Using "/"
> works fine. The problem is that Eclipse+StatET uses "\\" in the
> filename.
> And example of the error, traceback and sessionInfo are given below.


This is fixed in R-patched.  (It would have been fixed in 2.12.0 if more 
people tested the betas...).

Duncan Murdoch

> Best regards,
>
> Thierry
>
> >  Sweave("Q:\\BMK\\cursussen\\interne_opleiding\\deelnemerslijst.Rnw",
> syntax="SweaveSyntaxNoweb")
> Writing to file deelnemerslijst.tex
> Processing code chunks ...
>   1 : echo term verbatim
>
> Error:  chunk 1
> Error : '\B' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting
> "Q:\B"
> >  traceback()
> 4: stop(msg, err, call. = FALSE)
> 3: RweaveTryStop(chunkexps, options)
> 2: driver$runcode(drobj, chunk, chunkopts)
> 1: Sweave("Q:\\BMK\\cursussen\\interne_opleiding\\deelnemerslijst.Rnw",
>         syntax = "SweaveSyntaxNoweb")
>
> >  sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Belgium.1252  LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Belgium.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Belgium.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Dutch_Belgium.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils
>
> [8] methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_2.2      Hmisc_3.8-3
> [5] survival_2.36-1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.13.2  grid_2.12.0     lattice_0.19-15 svMisc_0.9-61
> [5] tools_2.12.0
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
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>
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>
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