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Understanding the workflow between sweave, R and Latex

3 messages · Duncan Murdoch, syrvn

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syrvn
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Let's say I have written the following tiny .Rnw file:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{Sweave}

\usepackage{tikz}

\usepackage{pgf}

\begin{document}

<<>>=

sessionInfo()

@

\end{document}
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I then can go to R and use sweave to translate the .Rnw file into a .tex
file

Once this is done the latex interpreter can be called and because I used

\usepackage{Sweave} Latex knows how to handle the sweave specific code tags.

When I first did this procedure I got the commong error that the Sweave.sty
file could

not be found. I googled and could solve the problem by typing the following
command

into the Mac OS Terminal:

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mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex

cd ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex

ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf Sweave
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What I don't understand now is how does the latex package
\usepackage{Sweave} know that it

has to look at ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex to find the symbolic link to the
Sweave.sty file?

What happens if I change the following line:

ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf Sweave

to

ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf Sweave_Link

In the .Rnw file do I have to use then \usepackage{Sweave_Link}?

Best regards,

syrvn

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Duncan Murdoch
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On 30/09/2011 8:03 AM, syrvn wrote:
No.  You need to read up on LaTeX documentation, and particularly on the 
documentation for your particular implementation, to find out how it 
searches for packages, but in general it is looking for the file named 
Sweave.sty, and the directory containing it could be named anything.

As an aside, I don't recommend the workflow you describe:  it's very 
slow and cumbersome.  It's much better to tell your text editor how to 
run both Sweave and Latex in one command.  In the upcoming release of R 
2.14.0, this is a single command:  R CMD Sweave --pdf.  In earlier 
releases, it's only slightly more complicated:  you need to process the 
Rnw to tex, then the tex to pdf using pdflatex or similar.  (You can do 
more elaborate conversions using my patchDVI package; it's on R-forge, 
here:  https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=233).

Duncan Murdoch
syrvn
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Hi Duncan,

I use Eclipse and StatET plus TexClipse and Sweave which comes with the
StatET package.
So fore me it is basically one click as well to produce the pdf from the
.Rnw file.

I installed the MacTex live 2011 version on my computer and thought it might
actually be
easy to find out how and where latex searches for packages. But I did not
find the place
where all this is coded...

Best

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