[R] Problem compiling Rnw file

[Riccardo Romoli]

Hi, using the full_path I solved the problem. Thanks for your precious
suggestion!!!

Best
Riccardo

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> Let me clarify a little bit about me comments on SO: setwd() should be
> called in the first place before you work on anything, and it should
> never be used in the middle of a project (if you do, you need to
> restore it later). Presumably Sweave writes the output file using
> something like cat(output, file = 'yourfile.tex'); if you changed your
> working directory before that, the tex file will be written to an
> unexpected place.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jessica Streicher
> <j.streicher at micromata.de> wrote:
>> I'll second the full path option.
>>
>> Just create a variable path_to_data and concatenate it with the names of any files you need in that directory.
>> You could also try to use relative paths if the data is "nearby" and is likely to not change that position.
>>
>> e.g. if the data was in '/home/r/Documents/mydata/whatever.txt', while you are working in '/home/r/Documents/myproj/', you can reach that directory via '../mydata/whatever.txt'.
>>
>>
>> On 05.11.2012, at 16:23, Riccardo Romoli wrote:
>>
>>> Dear R list,
>>> I'm using R 2.15.2 with TeX Live 2009 and ESS 12.09 . I have a R
>>> project in the '/home/r/Documents/myproj/', which is my working
>>> directory (where I have the .Rnw file). Inside the document I have
>>> several "setwd()" to collect the datasets I use.
>>>
>>> After I compile from the terminal using "R CMD Sweave myproj.Rnw", I
>>> receive the error:
>>>
>>> Error in driver$finish(drobj) :
>>>  the output file 'myproj.tex' has disappeared
>>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> do.call -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous>
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>> but the file "myproj.tex" is produced and if I compile it using
>>> "pdflatex myproj.tex" all works fine.
>>>
>>> Googling I found a similar problem but that guy have problem also
>>> compiling the tex file. I found enteresting a comment: "Thou shall
>>> never setwd() inside a report! setwd() should always be kept out of a
>>> report [...]". This is what I found:
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12162092/r-sweave-output-error
>>>
>>> Anyone knows why that happens?? Have you any idea about this kind of
>>> error?? How can I solve this problem without moving the files and the
>>> folders where I have the data sets??
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Riccardo