Matt, On 19 June 2007 at 21:23, M. Jankowski wrote: | Hi All, | | I am running Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) on a Thinkpad T41. I've installed | the nowebm package for Ubuntu. Working from this HowTo: | http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/example-1.Snw | I try to compile the example *.Snw as in the Sweave manual: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/Sweave/example1$ noweb example-1.Snw | Can't open output file | | Despite the error, a *.tex file is produced. Now I am stuck because I | cannot seem to get the CTAN noweb package correctly installed for my | Latex installation. I guess I am somewhat spoiled by the Synaptic | package manager. Here is the result of my best attempt to get the | noweb package installed:
i) No external noweb package is needed ii) Synaptic is not used to install CRAN / CTAN packages iii) Everything should be provided by r-base-core and tetex-extra. Since relatively recently, a 'Sweave' command has been added. So simply do $ R CMD Sweave example-1.Snw $ pdflatex example-1.tex $ kpdf example-1.pdf # or xpdf, or gv, or ... | A bunch of errors. What am I doing wrong? Any help is much | appreciated! You simply make your life too complicated when Debian and Ubuntu make it easier for you :) | Of course, if there is a better place for me to ask this question | please let me know where! Thanks! The r-sig-debian list is appropriate for problems with Debian / Ubuntu. Dirk PS I usually use simple shell wrappers like this one. Others prefer Makefile. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /home/edd/bin/sweave #!/bin/bash -e function errorexit () { echo "Error: $1" exit 1 } function filetest () { if [ ! -f $1 ]; then errorexit "File $1 not found" fi return 0 } if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then errorexit "Need to specify argument file" fi BASENAME=$(basename $1 .Rnw) RNWFILE=$BASENAME.Rnw filetest $RNWFILE echo "library(tools); Sweave(\"$RNWFILE\")" \ | R --no-save --no-restore --slave LATEXFILE=$BASENAME.tex filetest $LATEXFILE && pdflatex $LATEXFILE PDFFILE=$BASENAME.pdf #filetest $PDFFILE && acroread $PDFFILE & #filetest $PDFFILE && xpdf $PDFFILE & filetest $PDFFILE && kpdf $PDFFILE & -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.