[R] Hmisc latex function

[Charles Dupont]

Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> 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


Hmmmm,  It works for me.  Interesting.

It almost looks like the temp dir is not being created, but thats not 
possible because R does that.  It might be a Unicode issue with you 
system shell.  Can you run this statement in R

sys(paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()),";",
"echo Hello BOB > test.test",
";","cat test.test"))


What version of Hmisc are you using?  What local are you using?

Charles

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