[R] pgfSweave-example not compiling

[Yihui Xie]

OK, that is really helpful for diagnosis. In line 436 of your tex
file, there is an NA, but it should really be this:

}% this brace ends the effect of ‘include external’

So the reason for LaTeX failure was this missing bracket }. And the
reason for R to output NA here is most likely to be that in the LaTeX
comment here, there are curly quotes, which are not ASCII characters.
To solve the problem, you can either delete these non-ASCII
characters, or tell Sweave that your encoding is not latin1, but UTF8.
The latter way may not be directly possible, and this is why I brought
up the issue to pgfSweave developers:
https://github.com/cameronbracken/pgfSweave/issues/34

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Peter Meilstrup
<peter.meilstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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