[R] cygwin script for Sweave

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Windows you could just put this into sweave.bat, say, and then
place that anywhere in your path (or in the current directory):

set infile=%~sdpn1
set infile=%infile:\=/%
cmd Rcmd Sweave %infile%.Rnw
pdflatex %infile%.tex
start %infile%.pdf


On 10/13/06, Thomas Harte <thomas.harte at yahoo.com> wrote:
> below is a very simple bash script to run Sweave from a cygwin terminal, run pdflatex on
> the generated .tex file, and then view the resulting .pdf output.
>
> i usually use cygwin when i am (forced to be on) Windoze, but i found a few issues
> with paths that this script works around.
>
> pdfview, used in the script, is simply:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/pdfview
> #!/bin/bash.exe
>
> if [ $# -eq 1 ]
> then
>        /c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 6.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe `cygpath -w -a -s "$1"`
> else
>        /c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 6.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
> fi
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> mutatis mutandis for your own Adobe Reader.
>
>
> here is the script:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> #!/bin/bash.exe
> # rnw.sh [.Rnw file]
> #
> # $1 must be a .Rnw file
> #
> RNWFILE=$1
> PWD=`pwd`
> FILEBASE=`basename $1 .Rnw`
> TEXFILE=$FILEBASE.tex
> PDFFILE=$FILEBASE.pdf
>
> echo " \
>        library(\"utils\");             \
>        setwd(\"`cygpath -m $PWD`\");   \
>        Sweave(\"$RNWFILE\")            \
>      "                                 \
>      | /c/R/R-2.3.1/bin/Rterm.exe --no-save --no-restore
>
> # the resulting .tex file contains an annoying "c:" ...
> # replace it with the pdflatex-friendly "/c" :
> sed -e 's/c:/\/c/g' --in-place $TEXFILE
>
> # now run text processing
> pdflatex $TEXFILE
> pdfview $PDFFILE &
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
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