[R] Troubleshooting sweave

[Duncan Murdoch]

sachinthaka.abeywardana at allianz.com.au wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've reproduced the example from Prof. Friedrich Leisch's webpage. When I
> write sweave("Example-1.Snw") OR sweave("Example-1.Rnw"), (yes, I renamed
> them). I get the following error:
> 
> Writing to file example-1.tex
> Processing code chunks ...
>  1 : echo term verbatim
> 
> Error:  chunk 1
> Error in library(ctest) : there is no package called 'ctest'
> 
> Also while I'm at it, is there an R command to compile the tex file as a
> pdf or does the Sweave() function do that for me?

The patchDVI package on R-forge includes functions to process (possibly 
multiple) Sweave inputs into .pdf or .dvi files.

E.g.

SweavePDF("Example.Rnw")


Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thanks,
> Sachin
> p.s. sorry about the corporate notice.
> 
> example-1.Rnw: from http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch/Sweave/
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> 
> \title{Sweave Example 1}
> \author{Friedrich Leisch}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> \maketitle
> 
> In this example we embed parts of the examples from the
> \texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document:
> 
> <<>>=
> data(airquality)
> library(ctest)
> kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
> @
> which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone
> distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we
> include a boxplot of the data:
> 
> \begin{center}
> <<fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>=
> boxplot(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
> @
> \end{center}
> 
> \end{document}
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