Hi Duncan, thanks for your help. Unfortunately
texi2dvi("onepager", pdf = TRUE, texi2dvi = "pdflatex") seems to run into the same issue. I searched the documentation as you suggested (http://docs.miktex.org/2.9/manual/pdftex.html) and also checked pdflatex --help, but can't find a command line option to prevent the bibtex call. I think there should be one, since it's an option in texniccenter, but I guess this is now a latex not an r question (although I'm not sure exactly where I would put the command line option in the texi2dvi call above). If I can't find a way to do it then I'll take the batch approach as you suggested. Thanks again! Aidan I know texniccenter has an option to not run bibtex when calling pdflatex, but this is a tick box so I can’t find out what the command line option is from there. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/12/2011 6:47 AM, Aidan Corcoran wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I was hoping someone may know a way of running texi2dvi while ignoring >> bibtex errors, or any other work around (such as not running bibtex at >> all, if possible). >> >> The context is that I have an R program that does some calculations >> and writes a table into various folders, one per country for several >> countries. I have a latex file that takes the table as an input, and >> this latex file is copied into each folder. I would like to use R to >> compile the latex files, to avoid having to open and compile them >> individually. The files are simple one page files with no citations, >> so need no biblio. >> >> If I switch to one of the folders containing a table and a latex file and >> run >> texi2dvi("onepager", pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet = FALSE, >> texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi"), >> texinputs = NULL, index = TRUE) >> I get >> running command '"C:\PROGRA~1\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\texi2dvi.exe" >> --pdf "onepager" -I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/share/texmf/tex/latex" >> -I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/share/texmf/bibtex/bst"' had status 1 >> and no pdf produced. >> >> I think the problem is that the absence of a biblio causes an error. >> The files compile in Texniccenter (with a warning on "no \citation >> commands" etc). Does anyone know of a trick to avoid this problem? >> >> Thanks very much for any help! > > > You might want to check the MikTeX documentation to see if there's an option > to do that, but I couldn't spot one listed in "texi2dvi --help". So I'd > suggest that you don't use the texi2dvi executable, just run pdflatex via > > texi2dvi("onepager", texi2dvi="pdflatex", ...) > > (or by setting the texi2dvi option) with the ... being appropriate other > commands. If that doesn't work, then write a batch or cmd file to do > exactly what you want, and use system() to run it. > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.