[R] Question on Sweave-Latex and examples in the Sweave Manual

[eugen pircalabelu]

Hi List,

I have a problem with using Latex and Sweave for creating a document. 
So I downloaded the Sweave manual from 
http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch/Sweave/Sweave-manual.pdf

and i have tried to replicate the example on pages 4-5, but i encounter the following problem: IT DOES NOT WORK. I can run Sweave, create the .tex file and then when building the .tex file in TeXnikCenter i get all sorts of error messages. 

The syntax:

>Sweave("ex1.Rnw")
Writing to file ex1.tex
Processing code chunks ...
 1 : echo term verbatim
 2 : term verbatim eps pdf

You can now run LaTeX on 'ex1.tex'
 
I have attached the log file with the error messages.

Initially i had a problem with \usepackage {sweave} but i think i have solved (as it is not mentioned in the log file) it by putting it in the .Rnw file and then i copied the Sweave.sty file in the same folder as my Rnw file. 

I have seen the FAQ section on 
http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html#x1-14000A.12 (and similar posts in the archive) but still i have problems. I have reinstalled R in C:\R-2.8.1 as it says in the FAQ (and one of the posts in the archive) but i still get 15 errors, one of them being a fatal one, as it can be seen in the log file.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
Thank you very much and have a great day ahead!


PS: I have slightly modified the original document as 
library(ctest) is no longer available

> sessionInfo() # i also use TexnikCenter and MikTex 2.7 on my computer

R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) 
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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.8.1      lattice_0.17-17 nlme_3.1-89     tools_2.8.1