Hello I am not sure that I can help in this case, but I will still throw some ideas.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David Hewitt <dhewit...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a bit of a tangent from true LyX issues, but it is related and > I suspect the expertise exists on this list to solve my problem. I > appreciate any help. For those also on the R-Help mailing list, I > apologize for the duplication. > > I use LyX on a Windows XP machine with R 2.10.1 and a recent > installation of MiKTeX 2.8. I followed Jeff Laake's instructions on > the LyX Wiki (which I recently posted! -- > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave) and had things all set > up to run Sweave and Stangle and then make the PDF through R (though a > batch script called from LyX then on to a MakeSweave.R file that does > the work through R). All of this system worked just fine until I ran > some MiKTeX updates yesterday. > > After the updates yesterday, which I noticed included the miktex core > stuff, everything goes smoothly except that the code in the > MakeSweave.R file that runs texi2dvi (an R function that calls the > MiKTeX-distributed texi2dvi.exe to do the work) seems not to produce a > PDF but gives no warnings or errors. > > The contents of the batch file are: > > Rterm --no-site-file --no-save -f "C:/Program Files/LyX > 1.6.5/bin/MakeSweave.R" --args %1 > > The batch file is called in the temporary directory where LyX does its work, > > The MakeSweave.R contents are: > > library(tools) > args <- commandArgs() > filename <- args[length(args)] > Sweave(filename) > Stangle(filename) > basename <- sub("\\.(Rnw|Rtex|nw)$", "", filename) > texi2dvi(paste(basename, ".tex", sep=""), pdf=TRUE) > > I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the > background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and > finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in > the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the > PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp > directory > for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or > errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens. > Did you look at Document > LaTeX log? Sometimes it will display errors that are not popped-up by LyX. > Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF? > Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way > the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program > and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the > Sweaving and Stangling? > Did you try pdflatex, or ps2pdf? Liviu > A potential complication (as always) is that I am working in a > non-Admin account on the machine. I can invoke Admin permissions to > change things and had managed to get everything working before. > Permissions may be an issue, but I have set full access to all the > folders involved in this process (R, LyX, MiKTeX bins for example), > and this got it working prior to updates. I am hoping that is not it. > It seems like an issue with texi2dvi. > > Dave Hewitt > Research Fishery Biologist > USGS Western Fisheries Research Center > Klamath Falls Field Station, Oregon > http://profile.usgs.gov/dhewitt > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
