Dear Marius,
from reading the texi2dvi man-page and R-help on texi2dvi I suggest to set
'clean=F' and use 'texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi --mostly-clean")' instead.
Tim
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Marius Hofert wrote:
> Dear expeRts,
>
> below are two examples of using texi2dvi. The problem becomes clear from the
> second example: on cleaning, texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf file.
> Is there a solution?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
> ## Example 1: texi2dvi cleans fine, without deleting the generated .pdf
> require(tools)
> sink(file="myLaTeXFile1.tex")
> cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
> cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
> cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
> cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
> cat("\\begin{document}\n")
> cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
> cat("\\end{document}\n")
> sink()
> texi2dvi("myLaTeXFile1.tex",pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE)
>
> ## Example 2: texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf
> require(tools)
> filepath <- paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="")
> sink(file=filepath)
> cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
> cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
> cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
> cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
> cat("\\begin{document}\n")
> cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
> cat("\\end{document}\n")
> sink()
> texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE)
>
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