[R] Can't install Sweave

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/12/2010 8:41 AM, Rainer Schuermann wrote:
>> Why do you think it wasn't installed? There is no package "Sweave".
>>
>> Sweave() is a function in package "utils", which you session info
>> indicates you have and is loaded.
>>
>> Care to tell us what you want to do with Sweave and why you think it
>> isn't working?
>
> Oops - this is embarrassing!
>
> I promise I have done a lot of research before I posted the question but I got the info wrong and didn't realize that it's a function, rather than a package...
>
> Sweave.sty is not in my latex folder, will take care of that right now (I thought an "installation" would be the right way to get that done!) and keep quiet if thinks work nicely after that.

You shouldn't do that.  It will work until Sweave.sty is updated, then 
cause you hard-to-debug problems.

Use R utilities (e.g. tools::texi2dvi, or ones from a contributed 
package) to run latex, and they will point to the current Sweave.sty. 
If you put a copy of Sweave.sty into your latex installation, in a few 
months you'll have an obsolete version, and things will just not work.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction (also to Hung Min)
> Rainer
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday 11 December 2010 14:24:24 you wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 14:07 +0100, Rainer Schuermann wrote:
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>> I tried to work with Sweave, assuming that it is part of the standard
>>> installation - which it was not for my system. Trying to install, it
>>> gives me this error message:
>>
>> Why do you think it wasn't installed? There is no package "Sweave".
>>
>> Sweave() is a function in package "utils", which you session info
>> indicates you have and is loaded.
>>
>> Care to tell us what you want to do with Sweave and why you think it
>> isn't working?
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> G
>>
>>
>>>> install.packages("Sweave")
>>> Warning message:
>>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>>>    package ‘Sweave’ is not available
>>>
>>> My system data are:
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  grid      methods
>>> [8] base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] reshape_0.8.3 plyr_1.2.1    proto_0.3-8
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] ggplot2_0.8.8
>>>
>>> Any idea what I need to do?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Rainer
>>>
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