On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > You are right (ideally), but this is a long-lasting annoying problem > with R's default graphical device which is pdf() in the > non-interactive session. Unfortunately it has to create a file under > the current working directory (usually named Rplots.pdf). I requested > a true null device which does not write files, and it was implemented > in R 2.14.1, but again, unfortunately it has a bug which makes this > null device still write a file named NA. I have not got any response > from R core yet about this bug. > > I can submit a simple patch to lyxsweave.R to avoid this problem by > redirecting the default file to a temp dir, but I'm not sure if it is > still in time. It should not break string freeze, though. > It would be nice, indeed. Richard, JMarc, can such a patch go in for 2.0.3?
Liviu > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> > Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name > Department of Statistics, Iowa State University > 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA > > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: >>> I guess you compiled the document under >>> /usr/local/share/lyx-2.0.3svn/examples/, right? >>> >>> I believe the problem is that R has no write privilege to that >>> directory, so the default pdf() device cannot be started there. You >>> can copy sweave.lyx to a directory where you have write privilege, and >>> see if it compiles correctly. >>> >> Hmm, isn't the compilation supposed to be performed in a /tmp/ dir, >> where permissions are available? >> >> Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
