On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Duncan Murdoch
>> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 30/08/2013 3:09 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 30, 2013, at 2:00 PM, cstrato <cstr...@aon.at> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> To create a *.pdf file from a *.Rnw file I do:
>>>>>
>>>>> olddir <- getwd();
>>>>> setwd(outdir);
>>>>>
>>>>> tryCatch({Sweave("QAReport.Rnw");
>>>>> tools::texi2pdf("QAReport.tex", clean=TRUE)
>>>>> },
>>>>> finally = setwd(olddir)
>>>>> );
>>>>>
>>>>> This works fine, however 'clean=TRUE' does only work when:
>>>>> outdir <- "Test/inst/doc/"
>>>>> but does not remove the files *.aux, *.log, *.toc when:
>>>>> outdir <- "Test/"
>>>>>
>>>>> Why does function texi2pdf() require the directory structure for
>>>>> vignettes for the deletion of interim files?
>>>>>
>>>>> (The help file?texi2pdf does not mention that this structure is
>>>>> necessary.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the Details section of ?texi2pdf, there is:
>>>>
>>>> "Despite the name, this is used in R to compile LaTeX files, specifically
>>>> those generated from vignettes."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since it is intended specifically for package vignettes, the path
>>>> requirement should not be a surprise. :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is no path requirement. Christian was incorrect in his diagnosis.
>>>
>>> texi2pdf won't delete files that existed before it was run, whether or not
>>> they were changed during the run. That's likely what Christian was seeing.
>>
>> Or, that the cleanup fails if the compilation is too quick, cf.
>> PR#15394 'texi2dvi(..., clean=TRUE) sometimes too quick for "clean"
>> (with PATCH)' submitted on July 17, 2013:
>>
>> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15394
>>
>> /Henrik
>
>
> Interesting.
>
> It is late on a Friday, so perhaps I am short on functioning neurons.
>
> If the intent of 'clean = TRUE' is to remove the byproducts of compiling the
> .PDF file from the source .TEX file, why not just delete the resultant
> aux|log|tex|dvi files that match the basename of the source .TEX file rather
> than being dependent upon the time stamp?
I'm quite sure because it is not easy/impossible to predict which the
byproducts are. To catch everything, you'd have to do something
<basename>.* and that is certainly not safe.
/Henrik
>
> Is there a reason that I am failing to consider for a need to retain these
> files if older than the current time stamp? Perhaps if the compilation
> requires multiple cycles of latex processing (eg. the use of longtables,
> etc.), in which case, one could run texi2pdf(..., clean = FALSE) some number
> of times, then a final texi2pdf(..., clean = TRUE) when done. I actually have
> my own shell script that does this when creating Sweave files.
>
> Of course, the help file does have the following for the 'clean' argument:
> ...May not work on some platforms.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
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