Hi, using the full_path I solved the problem. Thanks for your precious suggestion!!!
Best Riccardo On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > 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 <xieyi...@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.streic...@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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
