Dear Marius, from reading the texi2dvi man-page and R-help on texi2dvi I suggest to set 'clean=F' and use 'texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi --mostly-clean")' instead.
Tim On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Marius Hofert wrote: > Dear expeRts, > > below are two examples of using texi2dvi. The problem becomes clear from the > second example: on cleaning, texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf file. > Is there a solution? > > Cheers, > > Marius > > ## Example 1: texi2dvi cleans fine, without deleting the generated .pdf > require(tools) > sink(file="myLaTeXFile1.tex") > cat("\\documentclass{article}\n") > cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n") > cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n") > cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n") > cat("\\begin{document}\n") > cat("\\blindtext[10]\n") > cat("\\end{document}\n") > sink() > texi2dvi("myLaTeXFile1.tex",pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE) > > ## Example 2: texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf > require(tools) > filepath <- paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="") > sink(file=filepath) > cat("\\documentclass{article}\n") > cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n") > cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n") > cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n") > cat("\\begin{document}\n") > cat("\\blindtext[10]\n") > cat("\\end{document}\n") > sink() > texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE) > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
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