[Bioc-devel] BiocStyle on windows with spaces in path names

On 10/08/2014 11:41 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

You may want to make those function local to latex().  I haven't
verified it works (won't have time), but I bet a beer that it will
work.

I'll take you up on the bet, at least for some definition of 'work'. For
instance when debugging a vignette or writing a complicated Makefile for
courses I commonly do the equivalent of

  R CMD Sweave foo.Rnw
  R CMD texi2dvi --pdf foo.tex

Any environment variables set running Sweave are not available running
texi2dvi.

Easy,

Rscript -e R.rsp::rfile foo.Rnw

would Sweave + texi2dvi --pdf in one go.  Putting that aside, I'm
happy to buy you a beer :)

Another solution along along lines of using TEXINPUTS would be to do:

R CMD Sweave foo.Rnw
export TEXINPUTS=`Rscript -e BiocStyle::texinputs()`
R CMD texi2dvi --pdf foo.tex


A third different (and "obvious") solution, is to copy the files to
the current directory, i.e.

$ svn diff -x --ignore-all-space R/latex.R
Index: R/latex.R
===================================================================
--- R/latex.R   (revision 95224)
+++ R/latex.R   (working copy)
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
              error=FALSE, use.unsrturl=TRUE)
 {
     options(..., width=width)
-    cat(sprintf("\\RequirePackage{%s}\n\n",
-                sub(".sty$", "", .bioconductor.sty)))
+    sty <- .bioconductor.sty
+    file.copy(sty, basename(sty), overwrite=TRUE)
+    cat("\\RequirePackage{Bioconductor}\n\n")

     if (use.unsrturl) {
         bst <- file.path(system.file(package="BiocStyle", "resources",
                                      "latex"), "unsrturl")
+        file.copy(bst, basename(bst), overwrite=TRUE)
         cat(sprintf("\\AtBeginDocument{\\bibliographystyle{%s}}\n", bst))
     }

This works also in your use case and those local copies are
automagically cleaned out by R CMD build.  This passes R CMD check
--as-cran on BiocStyle etc.  Now one can argue that it will clutter up
your local directory.  For the original problem of \usepackage{} et
al. does not support spaces in paths one can also copy to a temporary
directory and use that path instead.  (Personally I favor not
specifying paths at all to make even the intermediate *.tex file
portable.)

/Henrik

Martin


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