[R] pgfSweave-example not compiling

[Yihui Xie]

Yes, it is a little bit amazing to me too, so let's cc to the package
maintainer to see if he can do anything.

Regards,
Yihui
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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 Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Peter Meilstrup
<peter.meilstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, that lets me move to the next step in figuring out what's
> wrong with my document :) Funny enough that's not the first problem
> I've had with Sweave and non-ascii characters.
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> 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
>> --
>> 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 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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