On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Andrew Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Using Lyx 1.5.2 and MiKTeX 2.5 on XP. I am trying to use the Sweave
> to create literate-article documents. I haven't found great
> documentation for how to do this on a windows install, but I have
> pieced together the following steps, that ultimately fail when I try
> to produce any layout by any method. I get the following error.
> "Lyx:Cannot convert file. An error occured whilst running R CMD
> Sweave "newfile2.Rnw"". Anybody know why?
>
Hello, everybody.
Here are the instructions for how we did succeed in using Sweave with
LyX in Windows. I do not use Windows, but I have seen this work. I
might test it out and see if I can fix it if somebody promises to send
me a t-shirt. I think either you can follow this plan or study this
plan and then try to update it to the approach that Gregor proposes.
Gregor takes advantage of the fact that Sweave is now a command line
batch option for R, but the way that Windows interacts with the
environment is so different from Unix that I'm not optimistic that
something so simple will work.
Here is my warning. Your R code mistakes do not finish gracefully
with Lyx & Sweave. The only way to tell what works is to run LyX from
a terminal window, where you can see the R error messages. If you
start LyX from an Icon, as Windows users are prone to do, then you
will be completely helpless.
My student Frank Liu worked this set of instructions. I understand
that he has many students in Taiwan who are doing this, and I will
contact him to see if he has newer information.
I'm pretty sure that the library(tools) in the script below should be
changed to library(utils). I also think the last two lines of that
script are not strictly necessary.
pj
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Rweave for Windows Lyx (problem solved!)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:06:22 -0600
From: Cheng-shan (Frank) Liu
Thank you, Nicolás. Also thank Uwe Ligges, Brian D. Ripley, and Paul
Johnson for their advices. Here is a summary of the advices about how to
make Rweave work in Lyx under Windows:
Suppose your Lyx is installed in C:\ProgramFiles\Lyx and your R in
C:\ProgramFiles\R-2.2.1.
1. Create a R file "MakeSweave.R" with the following lines and then put
it in "C:\ProgramFiles\Lyx\bin\" (this is a path registered in Lyx).
library(tools)
args <- commandArgs()
inp <- args[length(args)]
Sweave(inp)
base <- sub("\.(Rnw|Rtex)$", "", inp)
texi2dvi(paste("base", ".tex", sep=""), pdf=TRUE)
shell.exec(paste("base", ".pdf", sep=""))
2. Create a batch script called "Rweave.bat" with the follwowing line,
and put it in "C:\ProgramFiles\Lyx\bin\". (Note that back slash "/",
rather than slash "/", is used in the script.)
C:/ProgramFiles/R-2.2.1/bin/Rterm --no-save --args "%1"
<C:/ProgramFiles/LyX/bin/MakeSweave.R> "%1.log"
3. Put noweb.sty (can be found in google, or simply grab this file:
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~tpl/noweb.sty) in
C:\ProgramFiles\Miktex\tex\latex\noweb\ and refresh MikTex.
4. Reconfigure Lyx (go to Edit-> Reconfigure). Check if you have
document class "article(noweb)" (Layout->Document), If not, you may need
to reinstall Lyx.
5. Last, make Lyx recognize the converter script Rweave. Go to
Edit->Preferences->Converters. In the "From" pulldown, choose Noweb. In
the "To" pulldown, choose LaTeX. Hit the "new" button toward the bottom.
Then, make sure the Converter Noweb->LaTeX is chosen, and in the box
called "Converter" type "Rweave $$i" without the quotation "".
To test if the installation is done, check out Dr. Paul Johnson's
example file (http://pj.freefaculty.org/stat/Distributions/Gamma-02.lyx
). See if you can view its pdf file.
-Frank Liu
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
