[R] Adding an Sweave Vignette to a package

[Doran, Harold]

There is now and it looks like I got through the first phase. But, now I
get the error below.

* DONE (MiscPsycho)
* creating vignettes ... ERROR
Loading required package: statmod
Below is what alpha *would be* if the item were removed

Error in texi2dvi(file = bft, pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet = quiet)
:
  unable to run pdflatex on 'MP.tex'
Calls: buildVignettes -> texi2dvi
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In readLines(f[1]) : incomplete final line found on 'MP.Rnw'
2: In system(paste(shQuote(latex), "-interaction=nonstopmode", texfile))
:
  "pdflatex" not found
Execution halted

I do have pdflatex, it's what I use all of the time. However, how do I
point to it for this build process? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James W. MacDonald [mailto:jmacdon at med.umich.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:09 PM
> To: Doran, Harold
> Cc: R Help
> Subject: Re: [R] Adding an Sweave Vignette to a package
> 
> Hi Harold,
> 
> Doran, Harold wrote:
> > I'm finalizing development of a package that will include a 
> vignette.
> > Without the vignette, the package builds fine with no 
> warnings and is 
> > ready for distribution. Now, I am following the directions for 
> > developing vignettes "Sweave, Part II: Package Vignettes" 
> by Friedrich 
> > Leisch.
> > 
> > I am using a windows XP machine (other session info below). Here is 
> > what I have done.
> > 
> > 1) I add the 'inst/doc' directory to the package source tree.
> > 2) I have added the following information in the preamble 
> of the .Rnw 
> > file
> > 
> > % \VignetteIndexEntry{An \texttt{R} Package for Miscellaneous 
> > Psychometric Analyses} % \VignetteDepends{MiscPsycho, statmod} % 
> > \VignetteKeyword{misc}
> > 
> > 3) I then copy the file "MP.Rnw" to the 'inst/doc' directory.
> > 4) I then run Rcmd build g:\MiscPsycho
> > 
> > The process begins as usual and it even tries to create the 
> vignette.
> > However, it runs into an error at code chunk 1 complaining that it 
> > cannot find the function called simRasch(). This simRasch 
> function is 
> > one of the functions developed for this package and one that will 
> > exist only when the package is built. The build process is halted.
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to handle this. Any advice is appreciated.
> 
> Is there a library(MiscPsycho) at the beginning of that code chunk?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> > 
> > Harold
> > 
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> > i386-pc-mingw32
> > 
> > locale:
> > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> > 
> > 
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] statmod_1.3.3
> > 
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.6.1
> > 
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> 
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