Hi Steve, You might have better luck installing the Cygwin version of LyX. The last time I checked, Cygwin included a version of R that could also be used. This would solve the requirements for a Unix like shell on Windows and simplify the configurations. The Cygwin version of LyX also works with MikTeX, so you wouldn't have to spend any time monkeying with LaTeX distributions.
Though I've played with it on Windows, I've had much better luck using Sweave on Linux. I actually went so far as to set up a dedicated Ubuntu virtual machine on my Windows box for R and Sweave related testing. It's pretty easy to get this running with Sun's VirtualBox and a live CD. (Though I've personally been using VMware workstation.) Cheers, Rob Oakes -----Original Message----- From: SteveSB [mailto:sbsid...@mweb.co.za] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:25 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Lyx - Sweave in MS WIndows XP Dear all I have spent the last day trying to get Lyx / Sweave to work and after reading whatever info I could get my hands on, including the various posts on this forum as well as Gregor Gorjanc's blog I have managed to get to the point where Lyx reports that the pdf file does not exist. Looking in the Temp directory I can see the filename.nw file but there is also a file marked filename.tex.pdf-dep (not sure if this is useful in identifying the problem) R is ver 2.10.0 and Lyx is 1.6.2 and MikTeX 2.7 on Windows XP I think that I have followed the info provided by Frank Liu and Paul Johnson correctly ( even though I found some of it quite contradictory) The only as aspect that I have not carried out is implementing a "Unix Shell" in Windows since except for Gregor's info, there is no reference to this in the other posts. Finally thanks for all the contributors, I am sure that its something rather simple that I am not doing, but at this stage I can't see the wood for the trees. Regards -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Lyx-Sweave-in-MS-WIndows-XP-tp4284360p4284360.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
