Problem compiling Rnw file
Let me clarify a little bit about me comments on SO: setwd() should be called in the first place before you work on anything, and it should never be used in the middle of a project (if you do, you need to restore it later). Presumably Sweave writes the output file using something like cat(output, file = 'yourfile.tex'); if you changed your working directory before that, the tex file will be written to an unexpected place. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jessica Streicher
<j.streicher at micromata.de> wrote:
I'll second the full path option. Just create a variable path_to_data and concatenate it with the names of any files you need in that directory. You could also try to use relative paths if the data is "nearby" and is likely to not change that position. e.g. if the data was in '/home/r/Documents/mydata/whatever.txt', while you are working in '/home/r/Documents/myproj/', you can reach that directory via '../mydata/whatever.txt'. On 05.11.2012, at 16:23, Riccardo Romoli wrote:
Dear R list, I'm using R 2.15.2 with TeX Live 2009 and ESS 12.09 . I have a R project in the '/home/r/Documents/myproj/', which is my working directory (where I have the .Rnw file). Inside the document I have several "setwd()" to collect the datasets I use. After I compile from the terminal using "R CMD Sweave myproj.Rnw", I receive the error: Error in driver$finish(drobj) : the output file 'myproj.tex' has disappeared Calls: <Anonymous> -> do.call -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> Execution halted but the file "myproj.tex" is produced and if I compile it using "pdflatex myproj.tex" all works fine. Googling I found a similar problem but that guy have problem also compiling the tex file. I found enteresting a comment: "Thou shall never setwd() inside a report! setwd() should always be kept out of a report [...]". This is what I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12162092/r-sweave-output-error Anyone knows why that happens?? Have you any idea about this kind of error?? How can I solve this problem without moving the files and the folders where I have the data sets?? Best Riccardo