[R] texi2dvi: option "clean" also deletes the generated pdf file

[Tim Gruene]

Dear Marius,

I see. I suppose it's a matter of your version of texi2dvi then - when I do the
same in a freshly created directory (including the "test" directory), cutting
and pasting your very code into R leaves me only with "myLaTeXFile2.pdf" and
"test/myLaTeXFile2.tex"

This is texi2dvi --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.11) 1.104

Tim

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:55:06PM +0200, Marius Hofert wrote:
> Dear Tim,
> 
> if I run ...
> 
> ## Example 2: texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf
> require(tools)
> filepath <- paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="")
> sink(file=filepath)
>           cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
>           cat("\\begin{document}\n")
>           cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
>           cat("\\end{document}\n")
> sink()
> texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE) 
> 
> ... on a "fresh-and-clean" working directory (and also no files in the subdirectory ./test), I only get the file myLaTeXFile2.tex in ./test, so *everything* (including the .pdf) is deleted :-(
> 
> I work with R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) on a MacBook Pro running 10.6.4.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
> 
> On 2010-08-19, at 13:38 , Tim Gruene wrote:
> 
> > Dear Marius,
> > 
> > yes, that's what I had meant.
> > 
> > I am sorry I had not actually tested my suggestion nor your problem (bad
> > practice). Now I have and actually in case 2 you describe I only end up
> > with test/myLaTeXFile2.tex and myLaTeXFile2.pdf.
> > 
> > If, however, I run texi2dvi at least once with option 'clean=F', the auxiliary files
> > are generated and left in the path. Also upon a subsequent run with the option
> > 'clean=T', they are not being deleted. 
> > 
> > Could this also be the case for you, i.e., that you once used the option
> > 'clean=F' (or not set at all) and now are made believe 'clean=T' does not work
> > because they are still there but actually left-overs from the old run?
> > 
> > I run "R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)" on Debian stable.
> > 
> > Kind regards, Tim
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Marius Hofert wrote:
> >> Dear Tim,
> >> 
> >> you mean
> >> 
> >> require(tools)
> >> filepath <- paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="")
> >> sink(file=filepath)
> >>          cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
> >>          cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
> >>          cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
> >>          cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
> >>          cat("\\begin{document}\n")
> >>          cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
> >>          cat("\\end{document}\n")
> >> sink()
> >> texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,quiet=TRUE,texi2dvi=getOption("texi2dvi --mostly-clean"))
> >> 
> >> ?
> >> The problem is that this does not work. It produces the same output as my "Example 2" without the "clean"-option. So it leaves all files in the working directory. 
> >> 
> >> The reason why I am looking for a "clean-up" is that I have to compile several hundred LaTeX files in different directories...
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> Marius
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 2010-08-19, at 12:33 , Tim Gruene wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Dear Marius,
> >>> 
> >>> from reading the texi2dvi man-page and R-help on texi2dvi I suggest to set
> >>> 'clean=F' and use 'texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi --mostly-clean")' instead.
> >>> 
> >>> Tim
> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Marius Hofert wrote:
> >>>> Dear expeRts,
> >>>> 
> >>>> below are two examples of using texi2dvi. The problem becomes clear from the 
> >>>> second example: on cleaning, texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf file.
> >>>> Is there a solution?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Marius
> >>>> 
> >>>> ## Example 1: texi2dvi cleans fine, without deleting the generated .pdf
> >>>> require(tools)
> >>>> sink(file="myLaTeXFile1.tex")
> >>>>         cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\begin{document}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\end{document}\n")
> >>>> sink()
> >>>> texi2dvi("myLaTeXFile1.tex",pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE) 
> >>>> 
> >>>> ## Example 2: texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf
> >>>> require(tools)
> >>>> filepath <- paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="")
> >>>> sink(file=filepath)
> >>>>         cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\begin{document}\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
> >>>>         cat("\\end{document}\n")
> >>>> sink()
> >>>> texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE)
> >>>> 
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