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

[Duncan Murdoch]

  On 14/09/2010 11:51 AM, Katie Surrence wrote:
> Thanks Duncan -- I'm running R 2.11 and ??texify gets me no recognition.

There is a command by that name in the tools package (not loaded by 
default, so that's why help didn't work), but I was talking about 
entering it at the command prompt, as you would latex or pdflatex.

Duncan Murdoch

> At the moment I'm trying to get something that works -- I'm not nearly to
> the point of fancy.  I solved my Sweave.sty problem although I'm still not
> managing to generate the graph in the demo file.  But maybe I should make
> that a separate question.
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >   On 14/09/2010 8:56 AM, Katie Surrence wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi all,
> >>
> >>  I know from googling that this is a common problem; I've just tried what I
> >>  understand to be the common solutions to know avail -- maybe I'm just
> >>  confused.
> >>
> >>   I installed Miktex 2.8 -- it seems to be working fine.
> >>
> >>  I'm using this demo document:
> >>  http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~houston/demo.Rnw<http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/%7Ehouston/demo.Rnw>
> >>
> >>  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?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >  You don't mention your R version, but recent ones have the command "Rcmd
> >  texify" which will call MikTeX correctly.
> >
> >  If you want fancier handling of the Sweave input -->  preview workflow, take
> >  a look at my patchDVI package on R-forge.  It allows "reverse search" from
> >  the previewer to find the right line in the Sweave input file, rather than
> >  in the intermediate .tex file.
> >
> >  Duncan Murdoch
> >
>