Problem with texi2pdf(..,clean=TRUE)

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:21 PM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:

Dear Duncan, dear Marc,

Thank you for your fast reply.

Can you please tell me:
If texi2pdf() won't delete files how are the files deleted when the
directory structure is Test/inst/doc/?

Check if what you're observing is reproducible when you run it *many*
times.  If not, see my previous reply.

/Henrik

Is this done by Sweave()?

Best regards,
Christian



On 8/30/13 9:14 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 30/08/2013 3:09 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:

On Aug 30, 2013, at 2:00 PM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:

Dear all,

To create a *.pdf file from a *.Rnw file I do:

      olddir <- getwd();
      setwd(outdir);

      tryCatch({Sweave("QAReport.Rnw");
                tools::texi2pdf("QAReport.tex", clean=TRUE)
               },
               finally = setwd(olddir)
              );

This works fine, however 'clean=TRUE' does only work when:
     outdir <- "Test/inst/doc/"
but does not remove the files *.aux, *.log, *.toc when:
     outdir <- "Test/"

Why does function texi2pdf() require the directory structure for

vignettes for the deletion of interim files?

(The help file?texi2pdf does not mention that this structure is

necessary.)

Best regards
Christian

In the Details section of ?texi2pdf, there is:

"Despite the name, this is used in R to compile LaTeX files,
specifically those generated from vignettes."


Since it is intended specifically for package vignettes, the path
requirement should not be a surprise. :-)

There is no path requirement.  Christian was incorrect in his diagnosis.

texi2pdf won't delete files that existed before it was run, whether or
not they were changed during the run.  That's likely what Christian was
seeing.

Duncan Murdoch