So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist.
I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. JMarc should be more familiar with the configuration behind the scene. I can give you steps to manually define these converters, but I do not want to mess up with your LyX configurations. You may come back to me if you really cannot solve the problem. BTW, are you sure the bin path of R is in your PATH? try this in a command window (Start-->Run; cmd): Rscript --version 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 Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Z.L. Li <terp.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yihui, > Thanks for your help. I just checked the converter part, surprisingly there > is 0 converter from Sweave to LaTeX ! I never thought about this as I think > if Sweave is a module, such converters should be automatically loaded. > Can you show me the how-to on putting those 4 converters into Lyx? Thank you > very much. > Ziliang > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: >> >> Is there a converter from Sweave to LaTeX? Check it in the menu >> Tools-->Preferences-->Converters. Normally you should have at least >> four converters from Sweave to different types of LaTeX output. >> >> 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 Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Z.L. Li <terp.u...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Dear list members, >> > As a newbee to Lyx, recently I tried to set it up and use the Sweave >> > module >> > to document some R codes >> > I have. I ran into problems very similar to the one discussed earlier in >> > this tread: >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg87193.html >> > I looked through the replies, tried and same problem remained. I have >> > listed >> > what I did below and hope >> > to find a cure. >> > I tried the following steps in two systems: XP + MikTex 2.9 + R 2.13.0 / >> > Win7 + MikTex 2.9 + R 2.13.0 >> > 1. put "C:\Program Files\MiKTEX 2.9\miktex\bin" and "C:\Program >> > Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin" >> > into the PATH system variable. >> > 2. download and install RTool for 2.13.x or later, checked to add the >> > appropriate Rtools path during >> > installation. And "C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin", "C:\Program >> > Files\Rtools\MinGW64\bin" >> > are in the PATH variable, too. >> > 3. copy noweb.sty and Sweave.sty to "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX >> > 2.9\tex\latex\misc" and Refresh FNDB >> > using the MikTex setting interface. I can use "kpsewhich" under >> > command >> > mode to locate these two >> > style files. >> > 4. download LyX-2.0.0-3-Installer and install Lyx. After installation, >> > run >> > the Reconfigure once. >> > When these steps finished, I opened the test file sweave.lyx, the "View" >> > button is "disabled". I can see >> > the Sweave module is loaded in Lyx from the Preference tab with the >> > typical >> > warning: >> > "WARNING: Some required packages are unavailable!" >> > I am pretty much stuck at this point and don't know what else I can do. >> > Any >> > help is truly appreciated. >> > Regards, >> > Ziliang >> > >> > -- >> > Life goes on.... >> > > > > > -- > Life goes on.... >