[R] Adding an Sweave Vignette to a package

[James W. MacDonald]

What TeX variant are you using? If texi2dvi() can't find texi2dvi, it 
tries to fall back on pdflatex which has to be in the path.

I have always had good luck with MikTeX, which does have texi2dvi.

You could always try

library(tools)
Sweave("TheVignette.Rnw")
debug(texi2dvi)
texi2dvi("TheVignette.tex", pdf=TRUE)

and step through to see where it fails, although on the surface it looks 
like a path problem.

Best,

Jim



Doran, Harold wrote:
> 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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>> --
>> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
>> Biostatistician
>> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
>> University of Michigan Cancer Center
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>>

-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
734-647-5623