[R] texi2dvi runs but produces no output

[Uwe Ligges]

On 17.06.2011 09:24, christiaan pauw wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. I tried to install the package as instructed. Command
> and results below:
>
>> install.packages("patchDVI", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/nova/Documents/R/win-library/2.13’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>    package ‘patchDVI’ is not available (for R version 2.13.0)


The problem is that the Windows binary of that package is really not 
available on R-Forge.

You can install from sources if you ask R to:

install.packages("patchDVI", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
type="source")

given you have the Rtools installed.



> I then ran the tests in Rtools.

Which tests in Rtools???

> I suspect the fact that I have I have
> installed R in a path containing spaces may be the problem - maybe also for

Paths with spaces generate problems for LaTeX and R tries to work 
around, but may fail.


Not sure why you do the stuff below at all and why R cannot change the 
working directory.

Uwe Ligges


> the Sweave part. Is there any other remedy but to re-install R or can I
> insert a link in a path without spaces  ?
>
>>   library("tools")
>>       testInstalledBasic("both")
 >
> running strict specific tests
>    running code in ‘eval-etc.R’
> unable to open output file
> FAILED
> [1] 1
> Warning message:
> running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/bin/i386/R" CMD BATCH --vanilla
> --no-timing "eval-etc.R" "eval-etc.Rout"' had status 2
>>       testInstalledPackages("base")
> Error in setwd(outDir) : cannot change working directory
>>       testInstalledPackages("recommended")
> Error in setwd(outDir) : cannot change working directory
>
>
>
> On 16 June 2011 14:10, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 11-06-16 7:50 AM, christiaan pauw wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody.
>>>
>>> Was the problem below ever solved? I have the same problem on Windows 7
>>> with
>>> R 2.13.0 and LyX 2 - everything freshly installed. My Rweave.bat and
>>> MakeSweave.R files are similar to below (I followed
>>> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/**LaTeX/SweaveR/lyx_with_r_and_**
>>> sweave_instructions.pdf<http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/SweaveR/lyx_with_r_and_sweave_instructions.pdf>
>>> )
>>>
>>
>> I don't use LyX or that batch file, I use some code I wrote that's in the
>> patchDVI package (https://r-forge.r-project.**org/R/?group_id=233<https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=233>)
>> that I wrote.  You might want to try it.
>>
>> The single line to run Sweave and pdflatex is
>>
>> Rscript -e "patchDVI::SweavePDF( '$1' )"
>>
>> where $1 is the name of the .Rnw file.  If that doesn't work for you, I
>> might be able to help with debugging.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
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