Sweave resource leak: leftover temp files (PR#7999)
One additional note: followups should only go to R-bugs if they have the bug number on them (like this message does). Otherwise you end up generating a separate bug report (PR#7999 was created in your reply to my submission of PR#7998). Usually it's best just to cc R-devel, unless you really have additional information to add to the bug report. We're planning (or in the process of?) changing the bug reporting system, so this is only a temporary inconvenience. Duncan Murdoch
On 7/8/2005 9:36 AM, HDoran at air.org wrote:
This is great. Thank you for your help, but let me make sure I fully
understand. Here is the looping file I use to subset the data frame,
create a tex file, and Sweave it. This results in N number of tex files
where N is equal to the number of rows in the data frame.
list <- unique(wide$stuid)
master = "master.tex"
for (i in list){
tmp1 <- subset(wide, stuid==i)
tmp2 <- paste(i, "tex", sep=".")
Sweave("fam_template.Rnw", output=tmp2)
file.append("fam_master.tex", tmp2)
}
If I follow correctly, I would need to place these commands inside the
loop as follows:
list <- unique(wide$stuid)
master = "master.tex"
for (i in list){
tmp1 <- subset(wide, stuid==i)
tmp2 <- paste(i, "tex", sep=".")
keep <- list.files(tempdir(), full=TRUE) # keep previous temp
files
Sweave("fam_template.Rnw", output=tmp2)
file.append("fam_master.tex", tmp2)
temps <- list.files(tempdir(), full=TRUE) unlink(temps[!(temps %in%
keep)]) # delete the newly created ones
}
Thank you for taking the time to look at this.
Harold
-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:28 AM
To: Duncan Murdoch
Cc: Doran, Harold; r-bugs at r-project.org; Uwe Ligges; Sean O'Riordain
Subject: Sweave resource leak: leftover temp files
Harold, I've taken a closer look at your example and I'd call this an
Sweave bug. It creates tempfiles each time you run it, and doesn't
delete them at the end. For example:
> list.files(tempdir())
character(0)
> testfile <- system.file("Sweave", "Sweave-test-1.Rnw", package =
"utils") > Sweave(testfile, out="junk.tex") Writing to file junk.tex Processing code chunks ... 1 : print term verbatim 2 : term hide 3 : echo print term verbatim 4 : term verbatim 5 : echo term verbatim 6 : echo term verbatim eps pdf 7 : echo term verbatim eps pdf You can now run LaTeX on 'junk.tex'
> list.files(tempdir())
[1] "Rf10523" "Rf13872" "Rf17129" "Rf2055" "Rf2203" "Rf2403" "Rf27095" [8] "Rf2892" "Rf31415" "Rf5290" "Rf6251" "Rf6482" "Rf7055" "Rf724"
> Sweave(testfile, out="C:/temp/junk.tex") Writing to file
C:/temp/junk.tex Processing code chunks ... 1 : print term verbatim 2 : term hide 3 : echo print term verbatim 4 : term verbatim 5 : echo term verbatim 6 : echo term verbatim eps pdf 7 : echo term verbatim eps pdf You can now run LaTeX on 'C:/temp/junk.tex'
> list.files(tempdir())
[1] "Rf10523" "Rf12679" "Rf1311" "Rf13484" "Rf13872" "Rf17129" "Rf17288" [8] "Rf2055" "Rf21774" "Rf2203" "Rf23417" "Rf2403" "Rf27095" "Rf2892" [15] "Rf29444" "Rf31128" "Rf31415" "Rf32520" "Rf3338" "Rf5290" "Rf5551" [22] "Rf6251" "Rf6482" "Rf7055" "Rf724" "Rf7543" "Rf758" "Rf7673"
> unlink(list.files(tempdir(),full=T)) > list.files(tempdir())
character(0) Harold: a workaround for this would be to wrap your Sweave call in something like this: keep <- list.files(tempdir(), full=TRUE) # keep previous temp files ... Call Sweave here ... temps <- list.files(tempdir(), full=TRUE) unlink(temps[!(temps %in% keep)]) # delete the newly created ones
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