[R] pgfSweave-example not compiling

[Peter Meilstrup]

Sure, here's the generated .tex file:
http://pastebin.com/b9fTsr0h

Peter

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> 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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