[R] Sweave and Miktex (Sweave.sty not found)

[Duncan Murdoch]

  On 14/09/2010 10:27 AM, Greg Johnson wrote:
> Katie Surrence<tiburona<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
> ...
>
> >  I've copied the Sweave.sty file into at this point multiple places on the
> >  Miktex path, including folders where I can see that it is looking for, and
> >  successfully finding, sty files (e.g. Miktex 2.8/tex/latex/base).   I also
> >  went to the Miktex settings application and clicked Refresh FNDB and Update
> >  formats.
> >
> >  Still I get this error when I try to run pdfLaTeX on the demo.tex file:
> >  !LaTeX Error: File 'Sweave.sty' not found.
> >
> >  Can anyone help?
> >
> >  Thanks!
>
>
> I have had good luck copying sweave.sty into the same directory as the .tex file
> created by Sweave() before I run Mitex.
>

Watch out for versioning problems if you do this.  Old Sweave.sty files 
don't necessarily work with newer Sweave() output.

Duncan Murdoch