Is it a good idea to put Sweave.sty and other style files into CTAN as a LaTeX package? (instead of pointing the users to file.path(R.home(), 'share', 'texmf') each time they run into troubles)
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 Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/12/2010 8:41 AM, Rainer Schuermann wrote: >>> >>> Why do you think it wasn't installed? There is no package "Sweave". >>> >>> Sweave() is a function in package "utils", which you session info >>> indicates you have and is loaded. >>> >>> Care to tell us what you want to do with Sweave and why you think it >>> isn't working? >> >> Oops - this is embarrassing! >> >> I promise I have done a lot of research before I posted the question but I >> got the info wrong and didn't realize that it's a function, rather than a >> package... >> >> Sweave.sty is not in my latex folder, will take care of that right now (I >> thought an "installation" would be the right way to get that done!) and keep >> quiet if thinks work nicely after that. > > You shouldn't do that. It will work until Sweave.sty is updated, then cause > you hard-to-debug problems. > > Use R utilities (e.g. tools::texi2dvi, or ones from a contributed package) > to run latex, and they will point to the current Sweave.sty. If you put a > copy of Sweave.sty into your latex installation, in a few months you'll have > an obsolete version, and things will just not work. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction (also to Hung Min) >> Rainer >> >> >> >> >> On Saturday 11 December 2010 14:24:24 you wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 14:07 +0100, Rainer Schuermann wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi there! >>>> >>>> I tried to work with Sweave, assuming that it is part of the standard >>>> installation - which it was not for my system. Trying to install, it >>>> gives me this error message: >>> >>> Why do you think it wasn't installed? There is no package "Sweave". >>> >>> Sweave() is a function in package "utils", which you session info >>> indicates you have and is loaded. >>> >>> Care to tell us what you want to do with Sweave and why you think it >>> isn't working? >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> G >>> >>> >>>>> install.packages("Sweave") >>>> >>>> Warning message: >>>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : >>>> package ‘Sweave’ is not available >>>> >>>> My system data are: >>>> >>>>> sessionInfo() >>>> >>>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) >>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>>> >>>> locale: >>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>>> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >>>> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >>>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >>>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>>> >>>> attached base packages: >>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets grid methods >>>> [8] base >>>> >>>> other attached packages: >>>> [1] reshape_0.8.3 plyr_1.2.1 proto_0.3-8 >>>> >>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>> [1] ggplot2_0.8.8 >>>> >>>> Any idea what I need to do? >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot, >>>> Rainer >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
