[R] Sweave error in example code

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:

> 
> 
> LL wrote:
> > Hi.. I am running R version 2.3.1 on a Windows XP machine with the latest Miktex 2.5 installed. I get no errors from R when running the Sweave example, 
> > 
> > testfile <- system.file("Sweave", "Sweave-test-1.Rnw", package = "utils")
> > 
> > However, when I tex the resulting .tex file (after installing a4.sty) I get the error below. 
> > 
> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5 RC 1)
> > entering extended mode
> > (Sweave-test-1.tex
> > LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> > Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
> > rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
> > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
> > Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
> > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\ltxmisc\a4wide.sty"
> > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\ntgclass\a4.sty"))
> > ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
> > <to be read again> 
> >                    \protect 
> > l.11 \begin
> >            {document}
> > ? 
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> 
> This works for me. However, when I ran this, MiKTeX prompted me to 
> install the ntgclass package, which I did. Everything ran smoothly after 
> that. I'm using R-2.3.1 with MiKTeX 2.4 in WinXP Pro.

But he is using MiKTeX 2.5: looks like a problem with MiKTeX, as the latex 
error is in the initial processing.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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