Dirk, Your solution worked wonders! This is outstanding! Thank you!
Matt On 6/19/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
