[Rd] R CMD Sweave versus Sweave() on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Pfaff, Bernhard Dr. wrote:

> Dear list subscriber,
>
> I am quite puzzled by the behaviour of processing Sweave files within an R session, i.e.
> Sweave("foo.Rnw") versus R CMD Sweave foo.Rnw
>
> In the former the environmental variable 'SWEAVE_STYLEPATH_DEFAULT = 
> TRUE' is obeyed (this is set in etc/Renviron.site as well as under 
> the users home directory in .Renviron). That is the hard-coded path 
> to Sweave.sty is included in the resultant tex-file, whereas if the 
> Sweave file is processed from cmd.exe as R CMD Sweave foo.Rnw, only 
> \usepackage{Sweave} is included.
>
> Any pointers are much appreciated.

R CMD Sweave does not read the startup files.  Try runnning 
R --vanilla and Sweave("foo.Rnw"): you will see the same.

> Best,
> Bernhard
>
> Output of sessionInfo():
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  datasets  grDevices utils     methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] fortunes_1.4-1
>
>
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