[R] Newbie help with Sweave

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 3/25/2008 10:06 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I usually install R in e.g., C:\R-2.6.2 to avoid such problems.

Explicitly including

\usepackage{Sweave}

may also help, so that Sweave doesn't try to give an explicit path. 
Then again, it may not, depending on which LaTeX you're using.  This is 
really a LaTeX problem, rather than an R problem:  different LaTeX 
distributions keep changing the rules for how to specify include 
directories.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> Zembower, Kevin wrote:
>> Kevin, thanks for writing. Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that this is
>> a Windows XP Professional system running GNU Emacs 22.1.1
>> (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) from Vincent Goulet, and R 2.6.2 Windows
>> version. I pasted in the sessionInfo() output from ESS inside of Emacs
>> to the end of this note.
>> 
>> Was your TA successful in correcting this error? How? Should I report
>> this to R-development as something worth fixing for the next release?
>> 
>> Thanks, again, for your response and advice.
>> 
>> -Kevin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca] 
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:01 PM
>> To: Zembower, Kevin
>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] Newbie help with Sweave
>> 
>> Is this in a windows system?  A TA of mine was just getting the exact
>> same message.  He tracked it down to the pathname for Sweave.sty having
>> trouble with "Program Files" in the path.
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> Zembower, Kevin wrote:
>>> I think I've gotten my Emacs/Sweave/R system set up correctly, thanks
>> to
>>> Vincent and Jim, but I haven't been successful getting my first
>> document
>>> produced. I'm trying to use one of Friedrich Leisch's examples,
>>> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/example-1.Snw. I cut and
>>> pasted the text into a document sweaveexample.Rnw in Emacs. It seemed
>> to
>>> be processed successfully with R:
>>>> Sweave("sweaveexample.Rnw")
>>> Writing to file sweaveexample.tex
>>> Processing code chunks ...
>>>
>>> You can now run LaTeX on 'sweaveexample.tex'
>>>
>>> However, when I try to open the file sweaveexample.tex and process it
>>> with Latex in Emacs, I get this error:
>>> ERROR: Missing \endcsname inserted.
>>>
>>> --- TeX said ---
>>> <to be read again> 
>>>                    \protect 
>>> l.7 \begin
>>>           {document}
>>> --- HELP ---
>>> >From the .log file...
>>>
>>> The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
>>> not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
>>>
>>> I've tried a variety of examples, but the error messages are the same.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point out my errors or mistakes? I've pasted in the full
>>> files below. Thanks so much for your help and advice.
>>>
>>> -Kevin
>>>
>>> Kevin Zembower
>>> Internet Services Group manager
>>> Center for Communication Programs
>>> Bloomberg School of Public Health
>>> Johns Hopkins University
>>> 111 Market Place, Suite 310
>>> Baltimore, Maryland  21202
>>> 410-659-6139 
>>> ==============================
>>> sweaveexample.tex:
>>> ==============================
>>> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>>>
>>> \title{Sweave Example 1}
>>> \author{Friedrich Leisch}
>>>
>>> \usepackage{C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/share/texmf/Sweave}
>>> \begin{document}
>>>
>>> \maketitle
>>>
>>> In this example we embed parts of the examples from the
>>> \texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document:
>>>
>>> \begin{Schunk}
>>> \begin{Sinput}
>>>> data(airquality)
>>>> library(ctest)
>>>> kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
>>> \end{Sinput}
>>> \begin{Soutput}
>>> 	Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test
>>>
>>> data:  Ozone by Month 
>>> Kruskal-Wallis chi-squared = 29.2666, df = 4, p-value = 6.901e-06
>>> \end{Soutput}
>>> \end{Schunk}
>>> which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone 
>>> distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we
>>> include a boxplot of the data:
>>>
>>> \begin{center}
>>> \includegraphics{sweaveexample-002}
>>> \end{center}
>>>
>>> \end{document}
>>> ================================
>>> sweaveexample.Rnw:
>>> ==============================
>>> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>>>
>>> \title{Sweave Example 1}
>>> \author{Friedrich Leisch}
>>>
>>> \begin{document}
>>>
>>> \maketitle
>>>
>>> In this example we embed parts of the examples from the
>>> \texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document:
>>>
>>> <<>>=
>>> data(airquality)
>>> library(ctest)
>>> kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
>>> @
>>> which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone 
>>> distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we
>>> include a boxplot of the data:
>>>
>>> \begin{center}
>>> <<fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>=
>>> boxplot(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
>>> @
>>> \end{center}
>>>
>>> \end{document}
>> 
>> 
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