[R] Sweve/cacheSweave

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/02/2010 6:06 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Unger, Kristian wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> I have a problem with using Sweave in combination with the option driver = cacheSweave.
>>
>> Whichever code I try to run  - when it comes to converting the tex file into pdf it comes up with the same errors (\csname \endcsname errors). Does anybody have an idea what it going wrong?
>>
>>   
>>> Sweave("pgfSweave-example.Rnw",driver  =  cacheSweaveDriver)
>>>     
>> Writing to file pgfSweave-example.tex
>> Processing code chunks ...
>>  1 : term verbatim (label=setup)
>>  2 : echo term verbatim (label=data)
>>  3 : term verbatim eps pdf (label=boxplot)
>>
>> You can now run LaTeX on 'pgfSweave-example.tex'
>>
>>   
>>> tools::texi2dvi("pgfSweave-example.tex", pdf=TRUE)
>>>     
>> Error in tools::texi2dvi("pgfSweave-example.tex", pdf = TRUE) :
>>   running 'texi2dvi' on 'pgfSweave-example.tex' failed
>>
>> LaTeX errors:
>> C:/Imperial/Sileida/DOUBLECHECK/ALL/eval_amps/pgfSweave-example.tex:10: Missing
>>  \endcsname inserted
>> The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
>> not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
>>
>> C:/Imperial/Sileida/DOUBLECHECK/ALL/eval_amps/pgfSweave-example.tex:10: LaTeX E
>> rror: Missing \begin{document}.
>>   
> 
> I think this is the important error:  it looks as though your .tex file 
> isn't a complete LaTeX document.  The other errors likely follow from this.

 From an offline followup:  the .tex was complete, but it included a 
path to Sweave.sty that contained TeX-special characters, and that was 
the source of the error.  See ?RweaveLatex for a discussion of how to 
avoid this.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Duncan Murdoch
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help
>> C:/Imperial/Sileida/DOUBLECHECK/ALL/eval_amps/pgfSweave-example.tex:10: Extra \
>> endcsname
>> I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
>>
>>
>> C:/Imperial/Sileida/DOUBLECHECK/ALL/eval_amps/pgfSweave-example.tex:10: Missing
>>  \endcsname inserted
>> The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
>> not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
>>
>> C:/Imperial/Sileida/DOUBLECHECK/ALL/eval_amps/pgfSweave-example.tex:10: Extra \
>> endcsname
>> I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
>>
>> I am running this under Windows XP, R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24), > package.version("cacheSweave")
>> [1] "0.4-3".
>>
>> Any help or advice on this would be highly appreciated!
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Kristian
>>
>> _____
>>
>> Dr Kristian Unger
>>
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>>
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>>
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