[R] Hmisc latex function

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm using R 2.2.0 on an up-to-date version of Fedora Core 4 with the
> latest version of Hmisc. When I run an example from the latex function I
> get the following:
> 
> > x <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c('a','b'),c('c','d','enLine
> 2')))
> > x
>   c d enLine 2
> a 1 3        5
> b 2 4        6
> > latex(x)   # creates x.tex in working directory
> sh: line 0: cd: â€œ/tmp/Rtmpl10983â€: No such file or directory
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file `â€œ/tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869â€'.
> <*> â€œ/tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869â€
> 
> Please type another input file name: q
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/q.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, b
> ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
> esperanto, e
> stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
> norsk, polis
> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
> swedish, tur
> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> File ignored
> xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: /tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869.dvi: No such
> file.
> 
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Rick B.

I get the same results, also on FC4 with R 2.2.0.

I am cc:ing Frank here for his input, but a quick review of the code and
created files suggests that there may be conflict between the locations
of some of the resultant files during the latex system call. Some files
appear in a temporary R directory, while others appear in the current R
working directory.

For example, if I enter the full filename:
 
  /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex

at the latex prompt, I get:

> latex(x)
sh: line 0: cd: â€œ/tmp/RtmpC12100â€: No such file or directory
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `â€œ/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869â€'.
<*> â€œ/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869â€

Please type another input file name: *** loading the extensions
datasource
/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex
(/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg))
No file file643c9869.aux.
[1] (./file643c9869.aux) )
Output written on file643c9869.dvi (1 page, 368 bytes).
Transcript written on file643c9869.log.
xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.dvi: No such
file.


The temporary .tex file is present, but the .dvi, .aux and .log files
are created in the current working R directory.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz