[R] package Utils Sweave Example Error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 10/16/2008 12:19 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> This appears to be the problem.  I'm not certain, but I would guess if you 
> look in the "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.7.2/bin/Sweave-test-1.tex" file you'll 
> see a line something like this:
>
> \usepackage{C:/Program Files/R/R-2.7.2/share/texmf/Sweave}
>
> That line (which was added by Sweave) will not work, because LaTeX does not 
> understand blanks in file paths.  There are a couple of workarounds:
>
> 1.  Install R in a directory that doesn't contain blanks.
>
> 2.  Include \usepackage{Sweave} in the Rnw file you're processing; this will 
> stop Sweave from adding anything.  I believe we set things up so that MikTeX 
> will find it in the right place (though I don't normally use texi2dvi, so I'm 
> not sure).

Yes, and 2.8.0 RC does this even better.

> To test this, you can just go and edit the Sweave-test-1.tex file now, 
> replacing the long line with the short version.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> 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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>> 
>> 
>> 
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