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running texi2dvi without running bibtex

5 messages · Aidan Corcoran, Duncan Murdoch

Aidan Corcoran
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Dear all,

I was hoping someone may know a way of running texi2dvi while ignoring
bibtex errors, or any other work around (such as not running bibtex at
all, if possible).

The context is that I have an R program that does some calculations
and writes a table into various folders, one per country for several
countries. I have a latex file that takes the table as an input, and
this latex file is copied into each folder. I would like to use R to
compile the latex files, to avoid having to open and compile them
individually. The files are simple one page files with no citations,
so need no biblio.

If I switch to one of the folders containing a table and a latex file and run
  texi2dvi("onepager", pdf = TRUE, clean = FALSE, quiet = FALSE,
         texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi"),
         texinputs = NULL, index = TRUE)
I get
 running command '"C:\PROGRA~1\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\texi2dvi.exe"
--pdf "onepager"  -I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/share/texmf/tex/latex"
-I "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/share/texmf/bibtex/bst"' had status 1
and no pdf produced.

I think the problem is that the absence of a biblio causes an error.
The files compile in Texniccenter (with a warning on "no \citation
commands" etc). Does anyone know of a trick to avoid this problem?

Thanks very much for any help!

Aidan
Duncan Murdoch
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On 07/12/2011 6:47 AM, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
You might want to check the MikTeX documentation to see if there's an 
option to do that, but I couldn't spot one listed in "texi2dvi --help".  
So I'd suggest that you don't use the texi2dvi executable, just run 
pdflatex via

texi2dvi("onepager", texi2dvi="pdflatex", ...)

(or by setting the texi2dvi option) with the ... being appropriate other 
commands.  If that doesn't work, then write a batch or cmd file to do 
exactly what you want, and use system() to run it.

Duncan Murdoch
Aidan Corcoran
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Hi Duncan,

thanks for your help. Unfortunately

  texi2dvi("onepager", pdf = TRUE, texi2dvi = "pdflatex")

seems to run into the same issue. I searched the documentation as you
suggested (http://docs.miktex.org/2.9/manual/pdftex.html) and also
checked pdflatex --help, but can't find a command line option to
prevent the bibtex call. I think there should be one, since it's an
option in texniccenter, but I guess this is now a latex not an r
question (although I'm not sure exactly where I would put the command
line option in the texi2dvi call above). If I can't find a way to do
it then I'll take the batch approach as you suggested.

Thanks again!

Aidan



I know texniccenter has an option to not run bibtex when calling
pdflatex, but this is a tick box so I can?t find out what the command
line option is from there.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
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On 07/12/2011 12:24 PM, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
I suspect it's a different problem:  pdflatex shouldn't run bibtex.  But 
who knows what MikTeX might choose to do...

Duncan Murdoch
Aidan Corcoran
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Hi Duncan,

I think you're right. I should have read the texi2dvi help more
carefully - it says
Run latex and bibtex until all cross-references are resolved and
create either a dvi or PDF file.

there doesn't seem to be a way to not run bibtex.  But as you
suggested, all I have to do is
system("pdflatex onepager.tex")

(I didn't know about this system command before you mentioned it).

thanks for your help!
Aidan
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: