I agree this is a LaTeX on Windows issue -- it is a shame that LaTex is
unable to accept valid file paths on the platform it runs on (using \ as a
path separator is also a problem).
I've changed 2.7.0-alpha to use the short path to Sweave.sty, as given by
shortPathName() but with / as path separator. That seems the magic needed
to get at least MikTeX's executables to accept the path.
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Vincent Goulet wrote:
Le mar. 25 mars à 10:19, Duncan Murdoch a écrit :
On 3/25/2008 10:06 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
Hi Kevin,
I usually install R in e.g., C:\R-2.6.2 to avoid such problems.
Explicitly including
\usepackage{Sweave}
may also help, so that Sweave doesn't try to give an explicit path.
Then again, it may not, depending on which LaTeX you're using. This
is
really a LaTeX problem, rather than an R problem: different LaTeX
distributions keep changing the rules for how to specify include
directories.
Duncan Murdoch
I also explicitly include \usepackage{Sweave} in my Sweave documents,
but in addition I put a copy of the Sweave.sty file in my local texmf
tree. After updating the TeX database, TeX/LaTeX finds the package
file without any problem.
(Kevin: email off-list if you're not familiar with the concepts of
"local texmf tree" and "updating the TeX database".)
You may well need to use 'personal' rather than 'local': the latter is
usually read-only on shared installations.
HTH
Best,
Jim
Zembower, Kevin wrote:
Kevin, thanks for writing. Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that
this is
a Windows XP Professional system running GNU Emacs 22.1.1
(i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) from Vincent Goulet, and R 2.6.2 Windows
version. I pasted in the sessionInfo() output from ESS inside of
Emacs
to the end of this note.
Was your TA successful in correcting this error? How? Should I
report
this to R-development as something worth fixing for the next
release?
Thanks, again, for your response and advice.
-Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:01 PM
To: Zembower, Kevin
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [R] Newbie help with Sweave
Is this in a windows system? A TA of mine was just getting the
exact
same message. He tracked it down to the pathname for Sweave.sty
having
trouble with "Program Files" in the path.
Kevin
Zembower, Kevin wrote:
I think I've gotten my Emacs/Sweave/R system set up correctly,
thanks
to
Vincent and Jim, but I haven't been successful getting my first
document
produced. I'm trying to use one of Friedrich Leisch's examples,
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/example-1.Snw. I cut and
pasted the text into a document sweaveexample.Rnw in Emacs. It
seemed
to
be processed successfully with R:
Sweave("sweaveexample.Rnw")
Writing to file sweaveexample.tex
Processing code chunks ...
You can now run LaTeX on 'sweaveexample.tex'
However, when I try to open the file sweaveexample.tex and
process it
with Latex in Emacs, I get this error:
ERROR: Missing \endcsname inserted.
--- TeX said ---
<to be read again>
\protect
l.7 \begin
{document}
--- HELP ---
From the .log file...
The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
I've tried a variety of examples, but the error messages are the
same.
Can anyone point out my errors or mistakes? I've pasted in the full
files below. Thanks so much for your help and advice.
-Kevin
Kevin Zembower
Internet Services Group manager
Center for Communication Programs
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
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==============================
sweaveexample.tex:
==============================
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\title{Sweave Example 1}
\author{Friedrich Leisch}
\usepackage{C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/share/texmf/Sweave}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
In this example we embed parts of the examples from the
\texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document:
\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
data(airquality)
library(ctest)
kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
\end{Sinput}
\begin{Soutput}
Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test
data: Ozone by Month
Kruskal-Wallis chi-squared = 29.2666, df = 4, p-value = 6.901e-06
\end{Soutput}
\end{Schunk}
which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone
distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we
include a boxplot of the data:
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{sweaveexample-002}
\end{center}
\end{document}
================================
sweaveexample.Rnw:
==============================
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\title{Sweave Example 1}
\author{Friedrich Leisch}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
In this example we embed parts of the examples from the
\texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document:
<<>>=
data(airquality)
library(ctest)
kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
@
which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone
distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we
include a boxplot of the data:
\begin{center}
<<fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>=
boxplot(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality)
@
\end{center}
\end{document}
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