[R] running texi2dvi without running bibtex

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/12/2011 12:24 PM, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> thanks for your help. Unfortunately
>
>    texi2dvi("onepager", pdf = TRUE, texi2dvi = "pdflatex")
>
> seems to run into the same issue. I searched the documentation as you
> suggested (http://docs.miktex.org/2.9/manual/pdftex.html) and also
> checked pdflatex --help, but can't find a command line option to
> prevent the bibtex call. I think there should be one, since it's an
> option in texniccenter, but I guess this is now a latex not an r
> question (although I'm not sure exactly where I would put the command
> line option in the texi2dvi call above). If I can't find a way to do
> it then I'll take the batch approach as you suggested.

I suspect it's a different problem:  pdflatex shouldn't run bibtex.  But 
who knows what MikTeX might choose to do...

Duncan Murdoch

> Thanks again!
>
> Aidan
>
>
>
> I know texniccenter has an option to not run bibtex when calling
> pdflatex, but this is a tick box so I can’t find out what the command
> line option is from there.
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >  On 07/12/2011 6:47 AM, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
> >>
> >>  Dear all,
> >>
> >>  I was hoping someone may know a way of running texi2dvi while ignoring
> >>  bibtex errors, or any other work around (such as not running bibtex at
> >>  all, if possible).
> >>
> >>  The context is that I have an R program that does some calculations
> >>  and writes a table into various folders, one per country for several
> >>  countries. I have a latex file that takes the table as an input, and
> >>  this latex file is copied into each folder. I would like to use R to
> >>  compile the latex files, to avoid having to open and compile them
> >>  individually. The files are simple one page files with no citations,
> >>  so need no biblio.
> >>
> >>  If I switch to one of the folders containing a table and a latex file and
> >>  run
> >>    texi2dvi("onepager", pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet = FALSE,
> >>           texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi"),
> >>           texinputs = NULL, index = TRUE)
> >>  I get
> >>   running command '"C:\PROGRA~1\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\texi2dvi.exe"
> >>  --pdf "onepager"  -I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/share/texmf/tex/latex"
> >>  -I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/share/texmf/bibtex/bst"' had status 1
> >>  and no pdf produced.
> >>
> >>  I think the problem is that the absence of a biblio causes an error.
> >>  The files compile in Texniccenter (with a warning on "no \citation
> >>  commands" etc). Does anyone know of a trick to avoid this problem?
> >>
> >>  Thanks very much for any help!
> >
> >
> >  You might want to check the MikTeX documentation to see if there's an option
> >  to do that, but I couldn't spot one listed in "texi2dvi --help".  So I'd
> >  suggest that you don't use the texi2dvi executable, just run pdflatex via
> >
> >  texi2dvi("onepager", texi2dvi="pdflatex", ...)
> >
> >  (or by setting the texi2dvi option) with the ... being appropriate other
> >  commands.  If that doesn't work, then write a batch or cmd file to do
> >  exactly what you want, and use system() to run it.
> >
> >  Duncan Murdoch