[Rd] Pkg creation: Sweave: multiple files vignette: Error in R CMD check

Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name
Thu Nov 6 18:34:02 CET 2014 

My guess is that your child Rnw file was not copied to inst/doc during
R CMD build or check. You may read the section 1.4 of the R-exts
manual: http://cran.rstudio.com/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Writing-package-vignettes

> When R CMD build builds the vignettes, it copies these and the vignette sources from directory vignettes to inst/doc. To install any other files from the vignettes directory, include a file vignettes/.install_extras which specifies these as Perl-like regular expressions on one or more lines. (See the description of the .Rinstignore file for full details.)

So it seems you will need a .install_extras file to make sure the
child Rnw file is copied along with the parent .Rnw. I do not think
you have to obfuscate the path of the child Rnw file like
../../whatever/... but you do have to change its file extension if and
only if you put it under the root directory vignettes/ (it should be
fine if it is under a sub directory).

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:44 AM,  <rolandh at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> Hello R-developers!
>
> First I want to thank Duncan, Sean and Ben (off-list-communication) for your
> comments and suggestions!
>
>
> Unfortunetly the renaming of the child.Rnw file to e.g. child.sub and also the
> usage of an other file type like child.txt did not solve the Problem.
> I got an ERROR in the beginning of the check process:
> ###
> ...
> ** installing vignettes
>    ‘Master.Rnw’ using ‘UTF-8’
> Error in SweaveReadFile(c(ifile, file), syntax, encoding = encoding) :
>   no Sweave file with name ‘./TitlePage.sub’ found
> ERROR: installing vignettes failed
> * removing ‘/tmp/Rtmp1iHmcw/Rinst1bc110488fde/trajaggr’
>       -----------------------------------
> ERROR: package installation failed
> ###
>
>
> I found a workaround which passes the "installing vignettes" process. In this
> workaround the child.Rnw file (here: TitlePage.Rnw) is placed in a subfolder
> of the  vignettes folder and \SweaveInput{} in the Master.Rnw-file looks like
> this:
> ...
> \SweaveInput{../../../../../../../../home/harry/.../R/R_wd/myPkg/.../vignettes/TitlePage/TitlePage.Rnw}
> ..
>
> (By the way I do not see the difference between this and the original approach
> with \SweaveInput{TitlePage/TitlePage.Rnw})
>
> Unfortunetly there is still an issue related to this workaround!
> I got a NOTE related to "checking re-building of vignette outputs" in the end
> of the check process:
> ###
> * checking running R code from vignettes ...
>    ‘Master.Rnw’ using ‘UTF-8’ ... OK
>  OK
> * checking re-building of vignette outputs ... NOTE
> Error in re-building vignettes:
>   ...
> Fehler: Verarbeitung der Vignette 'Master.Rnw' mit folgender Diagnose
> fehlgeschlagen:
> no Sweave file with name
> ‘./../../../../../../../../../home/harry/.../R/R_wd/myPkg/.../vignettes/TitlePage/TitlePage.Rnw’
> found
> ###
>
> [This workaround idea came from:
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Sweave-absolute-path-versus-relative-path-td3950135.html]
>
>
> I am a newbie related to package creation and I am confused why the Sweave
> file now is found in the beginning (original problem) but not in the end (new
> NOTE in R CMD check)?
> It seems to be a path problem. Is the "checking re-building of vignette
> outputs" done out of another origin/ folder, e.g. like out of a temporal
> created package source and / or out of /inst/doc? If it is like that this NOTE
> seems to be unsolvable!?!
> Any suggestions what to do to solve this?
>
> Thank you very much again!
> Cheers!
> Roland
>
>
>
> Duncan Murdoch schrieb am 2014-11-04:
>> On 03/11/2014, 4:08 PM, rolandh at uni-muenster.de wrote:
>> > Hello R-developers!
>
>> > I am creating a package (using devtools and RStudio) and I would
>> > like to split
>> > my vignette into multiple Rnw-files.
>
>> > As an example I tried the code from:
>> > https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486298
>> > (--> Working with multiple Rnw files)
>
>> > The Rnw-files work fine with "Complie pdf" in RStudio as well as
>> > with
>> > Sweave("Master.Rnw").
>
>> > But, if I try to check my package I get the following error:
>
>> > ...
>> > * creating vignettes ... ERROR
>> > Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet =
>> > quiet,  :
>> >   Ausführen von 'texi2dvi' für 'ChapterY.tex' fehlgeschlagen.
>> > LaTeX errors:
>> > ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>
>> > See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> > Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>> >  ...
>> > ! Emergency stop.
>> > <*> ...13 \let~\normaltilde  \input ./ChapterY.tex
>
>> > *** (job aborted, no legal \end found)
>
>> > !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> > Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
>> > Ausführung angehalten
>> > Fehler: Command failed (1)
>> > Ausführung angehalten
>
>> > Exited with status 1.
>> > ###
>
>
>> > So, it seems like that it is tried to make a tex-file from my
>> > child-Rnw-file
>> > called "ChapterY.Rnw",
>> > what of couse is not possible, because that file contains no
>> > praeambel.
>
>> > As a workaround I tried to put my child-Rnw-file in a subfolder
>> > (ChapterY) and
>> > calling this file by
>> > \SweaveInput{ChapterY/ChapterY.Rnw}.
>> > Again, "Complie pdf" as well as Sweave("Master.Rnw") works fine,
>> > but with
>> > checking the package
>> > I get the following error:
>
>> > Error in SweaveReadFile(c(ifile, file), syntax, encoding =
>> > encoding) :
>> >   no Sweave file with name ‘./ChapterY/ChapterY.Rnw’ found
>> > ERROR: installing vignettes failed
>
>
>> > By the way I tried that on different (L)ubuntu machines (12.04, 14)
>> > which the
>> > latest version of
>> > RStudio and R, and I also tried it after updating texlive to
>> > version 2012,
>> > always getting the same error.
>
>> > Moreover, if I just use one Rnw-file instaed of multiple files
>> > checking the
>> > package finished fine without errors!
>
>> > I do not know what to do anymore, and I did not find any solution
>> > in the www
>> > ...
>
>> > Do someone has any idea how to solve this problem in any way?
>
>> > Thank you very very much in advance!
>
>> I suspect the problem is that the check code can't tell which is the
>> main file, and which ones are the sub files.  Have you tried naming
>> the
>> sub files something else, e.g. chapter.sub?
>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>> > Greetings!
>
>> > Roland
>
>> > ###
>> > R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
>> > Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
>> > locale:
>> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>> >  LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
>> >  LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
>> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
>> >  LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> >  LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
>> > attached base packages:
>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> > base
>
>> > other attached packages:
>> > [1] trajcoert01_0.1
>
>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> >  [1] devtools_1.6       geosphere_1.3-8    grid_3.1.2
>> >  intervals_0.14.0
>> >  lattice_0.20-29
>> >  [6] move_1.2.475       raster_2.2-31      rgdal_0.8-16
>> >  rgeos_0.3-4
>> >  sp_1.0-15
>> > [11] spacetime_1.1-2    tools_3.1.2        trajectories_0.1-1
>> > xts_0.9-7
>> > zoo_1.7-11
>> > ###
>
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