[R] pgfSweave-example not compiling

[Yihui Xie]

Seems to be weird. I can run the example smoothly under Ubuntu with R
2.13.2. Could you also post your .tex file?

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Peter Meilstrup
<peter.meilstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get pgfSweave up and running. Hopefully I can get it
> working from within LyX, but first I'm just trying to get the simplest
> possible thing (compiling one of the example files in the pgfSweave
> package) to work. I'm using the example that comes in the pgfSweave
> package unmodified, but for reference I copied it to:
>
> http://pastebin.com/tW4RL6fs
>
> Configuration:
> R version 2.13.1 on OS X (intel) 10.5.8
> pgfSweave package version 1.2.1
> tikzDevice version 0.6.1
> MacTeX 2011 installed
> tikz/pgf package version 2.10
>
> Here is what I tried; I copied the file pgfSweave-example.Rnw into my
> working directory, created a "cache" dir and ran:
>
>> require("pgfSweave")
>> pgfSweave("pgfSweave-example.Rnw")
>
> This did some computation and then complained about a missing bracket:
>
> ! Missing } inserted.
> <inserted text>
>                 }
> l.439 \end{figure}
>
> After I dismissed this, it seemed to fail with various errors.
>
> make: *** [pgfSweave-example-boxplot.pdf] Error 1
> Error in tools::texi2dvi(paste(fn, "tex", sep = "."), pdf = pdf, ...) :
>   Running 'texi2dvi' on 'pgfSweave-example.tex' failed.
> LaTeX errors:
> ! Package tikz Warning: Some images are not up-to-date and need to be generated
> .  [1
>
> Rerunning pgfSweave led to the same errors.
> The process created a .pdf file, but in place of a figure it has the notice:
>
> "[[ Image Discarded Due To ‘/tikz/external/mode=list and make’ ]] NA  "
>
> Upon inspecting the log file I found this notice:
>
> ===== mode=`list and make': Use 'make -f pgfSweave-example.makefile' to generat
> e all images. Then, re-run (pdf)latex pgfSweave-example. =====
>
> I tried following this instruction, but it also produced an error:
>
> bayanus-2:writing peter$ make -f pgfSweave-example.makefile
> pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname
> "pgfSweave-example-boxplot"
> "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{pgfSweave-example}\input{pgfSweave-example}"
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> make: *** [pgfSweave-example-boxplot.pdf] Error 1
>
> I put the full R transcript at http://pastebin.com/aZECxKyP in case
> that contains additional useful information.
> I also put the contents of pgfSweave-example.log at
> http://pastebin.com/LzZW1z3R .
> Also pgfSweave-example-boxplot.log at http://pastebin.com/AF3TCCEK .
>
> What's going wrong?
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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