[R] Sweave files generating miktex errors

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 14:27:59 CET 2013


On 13-01-29 6:04 PM, Troy S wrote:
> Ok, yes I realize it.  So let me try to fix it:
> I removed the sty files, and set TEXINPUTS to
> 'C:\R\R-2.15.2\share\texmf\tex\latex
>
> I am back where I started: the tex file will not process.
> Please let me know what I should do to fix the issue.

Follow my advice in the original message?

Duncan Murdoch

> Troy
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>         <mailto: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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