[R] Sweave files generating miktex errors

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-01-29 4:55 PM, Troy S wrote:
> Duncan,
> Copying all 3 sty files to my working directory solved the problem.  I'm
> still curious why this was necessary in my new install.  Duncan, many
> thanks!

You do realize that you have now done a Very Bad Thing, I hope.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Troy
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 29/01/2013 1:37 PM, Troy S wrote:
>
>         Dear useRs--
>
>         I have been using Sweave with miktex for years, but on a new
>         install on
>         Windows XP, miktex seems to be hung up on single quotes.  See
>         example below.
>
>         Digging through stackexchange, I found using
>         \usepackage[noae]{Sweave} in
>         the tex file solved the problem.  My questions are:
>
>         --Why would this happen?  I have the ae package installed.
>
>         --If inserting [noae] is the solution, how do I have this done
>         by Sweave?
>
>         I'll start with the error messages followed by the tex file
>         outputted by
>         Sweave.
>
>         Any help, please?\
>
>
>     I don't know if this is the cause of your problem, but you are doing
>     one Bad Thing:  you have a copy of Sweave.sty in the same directory
>     as your document.  This is Bad because it is very easy to end up
>     with Sweave.sty from R version X while using Sweave in R version Y,
>     where X != Y.   You should leave Sweave.sty where it is in the R
>     installation, and use
>
>     R CMD Sweave --pdf testsweave.Rnw
>
>     (or one of the many equivalents) to process it.
>
>     Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>         Troy
>          >
>         This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9)
>         entering extended mode
>         ("C:\Documents and Settings\v\My Documents\testsweave.tex"
>         LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
>         Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans,
>         ancientgreek, ar
>         abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian,
>         catalan,
>         coptic,
>         croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish,
>         french, ga
>         lician, german, german-x-2012-05-30, greek, gujarati, hindi,
>         hungarian,
>         iceland
>         ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji,
>         latin,
>         latvian,
>            lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc,
>         monogreek,
>         ngerman, n
>         german-x-2012-05-30, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish,
>         portuguese,
>         roman
>         ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish,
>         swedish,
>         swissgerm
>         an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian,
>         uppersorbian,
>         usengl
>         ishmax, welsh, loaded.
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\
>         base\article.cls
>         Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document
>         class
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__base\size10.clo))
>         ("C:\Documents and Settings\v\My Documents\Sweave.sty"
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__base\ifthen.sty)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__graphics\graphicx.sty
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__graphics\keyval.sty)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__graphics\graphics.sty
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__graphics\trig.sty)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__00miktex\graphics.cfg)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__pdftex-def\pdftex.def
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\__generic\oberdiek\infwarerr.__sty)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\__generic\oberdiek\ltxcmds.sty))__))
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__fancyvrb\fancyvrb.sty
>         Style option: `fancyvrb' v2.7a, with DG/SPQR fixes, and
>         firstline=lastline
>         fix
>         <2008/02/07> (tvz))
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__upquote\upquote.sty)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__base\fontenc.sty
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__base\t1enc.def))
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__ae\ae.sty
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__base\fontenc.sty
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__base\t1enc.def)
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__ae\t1aer.fd))))
>         ("C:\Documents and Settings\v\My Documents\testsweave.aux")
>         (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\__context\base\supp-pdf.mkii
>         [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
>         ) (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\__ae\t1aett.fd)
>         ! Undefined control sequence.
>         <argument> +    V1=c('
>                               a','b','b','a','c','c','d','a'__),
>         l.14 +  V1=c('a','b','b','a','c','c','__d','a'),
>
>         \documentclass{article}
>         \usepackage{Sweave}
>         \begin{document}
>         This is a test.
>         \begin{Schunk}
>         \begin{Sinput}
>          > (x <- 1+2)
>         \end{Sinput}
>         \begin{Soutput}
>         [1] 3
>         \end{Soutput}
>         \begin{Sinput}
>          > test <- data.frame(
>         +     V1=c('a','b','b','a','c','c','__d','a'),
>         +     V27=c('1-oct-2004', '3-jan-2005','4-jan-2005','30-__jan-2004',
>         +     '12-oct-2012','13-sep-2012', '1-jan-1999', '31-dec-2004'),
>         + V24=letters[1:8])
>         \end{Sinput}
>         \end{Schunk}
>
>         \end{document}
>
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