[R] finding yap.exe with Sweave

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/01/2009 3:07 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote:
> 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.


It may be seeing a nonzero return value from pdflatex, which sets the 
errorlevel if there's an insignificant latex error in the document, e.g. 
a missing reference, etc.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
> --- 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
>>> cryanatbinghamtondotedu
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>>> http://home.stny.rr.com/ryancw/
>>>
>>> "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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