[R] finding yap.exe with Sweave

[Felipe Carrillo]

Problem solved. I reinstalled R and MikTex. Don't know why it didn't happen before, but now Sweave is able to find MikTex and creates the pdf file. It is kind of strange though, when I run texi2dvi it gives an error message saying that it cannot create the pdf but it still creates one.



--- On Wed, 12/31/08, Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] finding yap.exe with Sweave
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, "Christopher W. Ryan" <cryan at binghamton.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 3:57 PM
> This is what I did: 
> Installed R,Tinn-R and MikTex. Then I tried to Sweave an
> Rnw file, something like Sweave("test.rnw"),then
> texi2dvi("test.rnw,pdf=TRUE) but I had a message saying
> saying that it couldn't find "pdflatex". After
> doing a little bit of research I went ahead and downloaded
> notepad++ and followed the wizard instructions which asked
> me to find the path to C:\Program
> Files\MikTex\.....latex.exe and then to follow and
> save the same path to yap.exe. After I did this notepad++
> asked me to perform a test to see if I could generate a dvi
> file which I did and everything worked beautifully. No I am
> able to run Sweave from R and everything works ok but I feel
> that I has to be a workaround it because I don't use
> notepad++ at all, I only used it once to do what I described
> above. I am thinking that based on what you described, I
> just need to put Sweave.sty on MikTex path. I'll try
> that and see what happens. R resides on my C:\drive and
> MikTex resides in C:\Program
>  Files\MikTex so I wonder if those two need to be in
> the same directory. Thanks for looking into it.
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 12/31/08, Christopher W. Ryan
> <cryan at binghamton.edu> wrote:
> 
> > From: Christopher W. Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [R] finding yap.exe with Sweave
> > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 12:04 PM
> > Hmm, it's been a while since I installed my R and
> > Sweave, so I can't
> > remember exactly how I did it, but I don't recall
> any
> > particular
> > difficulties. I think I had to copy the Sweave.sty to
> my
> > localtexmf
> > tree; I see it there now in
> >
> C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\Sweave\Sweave.sty,
> > in addition to having it in
> > C:\Program
> >
> Files\R\R-2.5.1\share\texmf\Sweave.sty.
> > 
> > I suppose instead I could have just put the latter
> > directory in my
> > MikTex as a local tree, in which to look for .sty
> files.
> > 
> > I use MikTex too, and I don't use any particular
> > editor; I write in
> > TinnR but have used Programmers Notepad and others
> > successfully.
> > 
> > What do you mean you had to use, "notepad++ to
> tell
> > Sweave where
> > Latex.exe and yap.exe where located under MikTex
> > path?"
> > 
> > --Chris
> > Christopher W. Ryan, MD
> > SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at
> > Binghamton
> > 40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY  13790
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> > 
> > "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up
> the
> > men to gather wood,
> > divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them
> to
> > yearn for the
> > vast and endless sea."  [Antoine de St. Exupery]
> > 
> > Felipe Carrillo wrote:
> > > Dear all:
> > > Just to make sure I am on the same page as
> everyone
> > else. 
> > > I just got a new computer and had to reinstall
> MikTex
> > and  of course R and Tinn-R. In order to be able to
> generate
> > PDF's with Sweave I had to install notepad++ to
> tell
> > Sweave where Latex.exe and yap.exe where located under
> > MikTex path. So,I have two questions: 
> > > 1- Do I need to have a Miktex editor in order to
> use
> > Sweave? I am not using the editor because I am
> generating my
> > PDF's from R using Sweave.
> > > 2- Is Sweave able to find the path to Latex.exe
> and
> > yap.exe by itself?
> > > Everything works fine now but I am just want to
> get it
> > right for future installations.
> > > I'm running on windows xp and have R-2.8.1
> > installed
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Felipe D. Carrillo  
> > > Supervisory Fishery Biologist  
> > > Department of the Interior  
> > > US Fish & Wildlife Service  
> > > California, USA
> > > 
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