[R] package Utils Sweave Example Error

[Felipe Carrillo]

This is my sessionInfo() and Sys.getenv("PATH") 

  library(tools)
testfile <- system.file("Sweave", "Sweave-test-1.Rnw", package = "utils")
## enforce par(ask=FALSE)
options(device.ask.default=FALSE)
## create a LaTeX file
Sweave(testfile)
Writing to file Sweave-test-1.tex
Processing code chunks ...
 1 : print term verbatim
 2 : term hide
 3 : echo print term verbatim
 4 : term verbatim
 5 : echo term verbatim
 6 : echo term verbatim eps pdf
 7 : echo term verbatim eps pdf

You can now run LaTeX on 'Sweave-test-1.tex'
## This can be compiled to PDF by
texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf=TRUE,quiet=FALSE)

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
entering extended mode
("C:/Program Files/R/R-2.7.2/bin/Sweave-test-1.tex"
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, french, loaded.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\ltxmisc\a4wide.sty"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\ntgclass\a4.sty"))
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again> 
                   \protect 
l.11 \begin
           {document}
? pdflatex.EXE: Bad file descriptor
texify: pdflatex failed for some reason (see log file).
Error in texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex", pdf = TRUE, quiet = FALSE) : 
  running 'texi2dvi' on 'Sweave-test-1.tex' failed

sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) 
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] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> Sys.getenv("PATH") 
PATH
"C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX 2.7\\miktex\\bin;C:\\GTK\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Program Files\\SYSTAT 10\\;C:\\Program Files\\SYSTAT 10\\XGRAPH\\;C:\\Program Files\\Wave Systems Corp\\Dell Preboot Manager\\Access Client\\v5\\;C:\\Program Files\\ATI Technologies\\ATI.ACE\\Core-Static;c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\90\\Tools\\binn\\"

Thank you

Felipe D. Carrillo  
Supervisory Fishery Biologist  
Department of the Interior  
US Fish & Wildlife Service  
California, USA


--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> Try running it as texi2dvi("Sweave-test-1.tex",
> pdf=TRUE, quiet=FALSE), 
> and post the list of error messages.
> 
> You should also show us the results of sessionInfo() and 
> Sys.getenv("PATH"), and tell us which version of
> LaTeX you have installed.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> > 
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