On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
Friedrich,
This texi2dvi is also very nice. Dou you know of any pros and cons in comparison to rubber?
texi2dvi is pretty standard, part of the texinfo distribution. rubber is not in the standard Linux distros, and uses python, also not very standard, especially on Windows.
Is tex2dvi also shipped with R for windows? I am not able to find a binnary in my windows installation, however I found help page. Did I missed anything? I have 2.0.1
I believe Fritz was referring to the script src/script/texi2dvi. That is far too slow on Windows even if you have the tools installed as it runs ca 2000 processes per invocation.
R has a function texi2dvi in package tools that avoids this on Windows. Let me repost (from a thread on R-devel about automating Sweave scripts on Windows).
% cat Rnw.bat rterm --no-save --args "%1" < /tmp/MakeSweave.R > "%1.log"
% cat /tmp/MakeSweave.R
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="")) # display PDF file on Windows.which shows how easy this is to script in R in a cross-platform way
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:29:00 +0100, Gregor GORJANC (GG) wrote:
> Hello! > Those of you, who use Sweave a lot, will probably find my shell script > usable. You can get it at:
> http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/programs/shell/Sweave.sh
> No warranty, however don't hesitate to contact me if you find an error or > have a patch!
Very nice!
Side note 1: R ships a version of texi2dvi, hence you might use that one in case rubber is not found.
side note 2: For make afficionados the follwing 2 rules in combination with the Sweave script from the FAQ do almost the same (that's what I use :-)
%.tex: %.Rnw Sweave $<
%.pdf : %.tex texi2dvi --clean --pdf $<
Best, Fritz Leisch
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