[R] package Utils Sweave Example Error

[Thompson, David (MNR)]

(Question/suggestion inline below) 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
>Sent: October 16, 2008 02:17 PM
>To: mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com
>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [R] package Utils Sweave Example Error
>
>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:

Does the Windoze convention of using "C:/Progra~1/" to represent
"C:/Program Files/" not work in these situations?

DaveT.
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>
>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).
>
>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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