[R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Gregor GORJANC wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I really started a nice debate. I have now removed rubber from my script. I 
> found tex2dvi equally good and as Brian pointed it is more frequent than 
> rubber. I also added some parts from Achim (rm ...).
>
> http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/programs/shell/Sweave.sh
>
> Shell vs R: It is nice to have such a script/function in R so it is easier to 
> port it to Windows. However I find it crucial that user has ability to run 
> this script from command line directly not only within R, which should not be 
> the problem from what I have read from this mails.

You have to run _some_ script interpreter from the command line, and that 
may equally well be R as python, perl or sh.  I gave a complete example of 
doing (as people seems not to pick up on this).

Now we have a `lean-and-mean' base R (the purpose of the package 
reorganization around 1.9.0) it works quite well as a script engine 
(startup time below 100ms), and it is used extensively to install R and 
build packages.

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