Sweave.sh shell script on CRAN
On 4/16/07, Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si> wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Windows sweave.bat is a Windows XP batchfile that will run sweave and then latex and then display the file on screen. Issuing the command sweave without args from the Windows command line gives info on how to use it.
Nice to see windows "equivalent". However, I must say that my script provides several ways to get to the result e.g. if you use prosper you need to go via postscript, beamer behaves differently etc. There are now the following ways of LaTeX processing: Command and path Script option Used tools - texi2dvi - PS -tp, --texi2dvi2ps texi2dvi and dvips - PS to PDF -tld, --texi2dvi2ps2pdf texi2dvi, dvips and ps2pdf - PDF -td, --texi2dvi2pdf texi2dvi with pdf option - latex - PS -lp, --latex2dvi2ps hardcoded 'latex+co' + dvips - PS to PDF -lld, --latex2dvi2ps2pdf hardcoded 'latex+co' + dvips - pdflatex - PDF -ld, --latex2pdf hardcoded 'latex+co' + dvips
To install sweave.bat you must place sweave.bat (and Rcmd.bat) both from this batchfiles distribution anywhere in your path. It does not require sh.exe and does not make use of perl but does use "Rcmd sweave" so would have no prerequisites beyond latex, Acrobot (or other viewer) and those of Rcmd.
As I stated I am not sure how Rcmd works, but Sweave in SVN is a shell script as well as Rcmd! How does it become an exe file? Gregor
If by "Sweave in SVN" you are referring to sweave.bat in the batchfiles distribution then its not a shell file; rather, its a Windows batch file. Windows has a batch processor built in that directly runs Windows batch files without any precompiling to an exe. As stated, you simply place sweave.bat and rcmd.bat, both files from the batchfiles distribution, anywhere in your path to run it. There is no further installation required. That was why I used Windows batch -- to eliminate dependencies, installation procedures, precompilations setting environment variable names, etc.