[R] texi2dvi runs but produces no output

[David Hewitt]

Christiaan,

Sorry I did not respond earlier. I have been away on vacation. With
all the changes in LyX 2.x to make Sweave stuff easier, I suspect this
problem should go away. I have not upgraded my system, but a couple
folks that have done so reported no problems with a setup like yours.
Probably best to send a request to the LyX users' list to get this
resolved, as LyX development is very interested in this aspect
nowadays.

http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc4

- Dave



2011/6/17 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>
>
> 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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