From: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [R] finding yap.exe with Sweave
To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch, "Christopher W. Ryan" <cr...@binghamton.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 3:57 PM
This is what I did:
Installed R,Tinn-R and MikTex. Then I tried to Sweave an
Rnw file, something like Sweave("test.rnw"),then
texi2dvi("test.rnw,pdf=TRUE) but I had a message saying
saying that it couldn't find "pdflatex". After
doing a little bit of research I went ahead and downloaded
notepad++ and followed the wizard instructions which asked
me to find the path to C:\Program
Files\MikTex\.....latex.exe and then to follow and
save the same path to yap.exe. After I did this notepad++
asked me to perform a test to see if I could generate a dvi
file which I did and everything worked beautifully. No I am
able to run Sweave from R and everything works ok but I feel
that I has to be a workaround it because I don't use
notepad++ at all, I only used it once to do what I described
above. I am thinking that based on what you described, I
just need to put Sweave.sty on MikTex path. I'll try
that and see what happens. R resides on my C:\drive and
MikTex resides in C:\Program
Files\MikTex so I wonder if those two need to be in
the same directory. Thanks for looking into it.
--- On Wed, 12/31/08, Christopher W. Ryan
<cr...@binghamton.edu> wrote:
From: Christopher W. Ryan <cr...@binghamton.edu>
Subject: Re: [R] finding yap.exe with Sweave
To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 12:04 PM
Hmm, it's been a while since I installed my R and
Sweave, so I can't
remember exactly how I did it, but I don't recall
any
particular
difficulties. I think I had to copy the Sweave.sty to
my
localtexmf
tree; I see it there now in
C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\Sweave\Sweave.sty,
in addition to having it in
C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.5.1\share\texmf\Sweave.sty.
I suppose instead I could have just put the latter
directory in my
MikTex as a local tree, in which to look for .sty
files.
I use MikTex too, and I don't use any particular
editor; I write in
TinnR but have used Programmers Notepad and others
successfully.
What do you mean you had to use, "notepad++ to
tell
Sweave where
Latex.exe and yap.exe where located under MikTex
path?"
--Chris
Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at
Binghamton
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Felipe Carrillo wrote:
Dear all:
Just to make sure I am on the same page as
everyone
else.
I just got a new computer and had to reinstall
MikTex
and of course R and Tinn-R. In order to be able to
generate
PDF's with Sweave I had to install notepad++ to
tell
Sweave where Latex.exe and yap.exe where located under
MikTex path. So,I have two questions:
1- Do I need to have a Miktex editor in order to
use
Sweave? I am not using the editor because I am
generating my
PDF's from R using Sweave.
2- Is Sweave able to find the path to Latex.exe
and
yap.exe by itself?
Everything works fine now but I am just want to
get it
right for future installations.
I'm running on windows xp and have R-2.8.1
installed
Thanks in advance
Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish & Wildlife Service
California, USA
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