Hi Kevin, I usually install R in e.g., C:\R-2.6.2 to avoid such problems.
Best, Jim Zembower, Kevin wrote: > Kevin, thanks for writing. Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that this is > a Windows XP Professional system running GNU Emacs 22.1.1 > (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) from Vincent Goulet, and R 2.6.2 Windows > version. I pasted in the sessionInfo() output from ESS inside of Emacs > to the end of this note. > > Was your TA successful in correcting this error? How? Should I report > this to R-development as something worth fixing for the next release? > > Thanks, again, for your response and advice. > > -Kevin > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:01 PM > To: Zembower, Kevin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Newbie help with Sweave > > Is this in a windows system? A TA of mine was just getting the exact > same message. He tracked it down to the pathname for Sweave.sty having > trouble with "Program Files" in the path. > > Kevin > > Zembower, Kevin wrote: >> I think I've gotten my Emacs/Sweave/R system set up correctly, thanks > to >> Vincent and Jim, but I haven't been successful getting my first > document >> produced. I'm trying to use one of Friedrich Leisch's examples, >> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/example-1.Snw. I cut and >> pasted the text into a document sweaveexample.Rnw in Emacs. It seemed > to >> be processed successfully with R: >>> Sweave("sweaveexample.Rnw") >> Writing to file sweaveexample.tex >> Processing code chunks ... >> >> You can now run LaTeX on 'sweaveexample.tex' >> >> However, when I try to open the file sweaveexample.tex and process it >> with Latex in Emacs, I get this error: >> ERROR: Missing \endcsname inserted. >> >> --- TeX said --- >> <to be read again> >> \protect >> l.7 \begin >> {document} >> --- HELP --- >> >From the .log file... >> >> The control sequence marked <to be read again> should >> not appear between \csname and \endcsname. >> >> I've tried a variety of examples, but the error messages are the same. >> >> Can anyone point out my errors or mistakes? I've pasted in the full >> files below. Thanks so much for your help and advice. >> >> -Kevin >> >> Kevin Zembower >> Internet Services Group manager >> Center for Communication Programs >> Bloomberg School of Public Health >> Johns Hopkins University >> 111 Market Place, Suite 310 >> Baltimore, Maryland 21202 >> 410-659-6139 >> ============================== >> sweaveexample.tex: >> ============================== >> \documentclass[a4paper]{article} >> >> \title{Sweave Example 1} >> \author{Friedrich Leisch} >> >> \usepackage{C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/share/texmf/Sweave} >> \begin{document} >> >> \maketitle >> >> In this example we embed parts of the examples from the >> \texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document: >> >> \begin{Schunk} >> \begin{Sinput} >>> data(airquality) >>> library(ctest) >>> kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality) >> \end{Sinput} >> \begin{Soutput} >> Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test >> >> data: Ozone by Month >> Kruskal-Wallis chi-squared = 29.2666, df = 4, p-value = 6.901e-06 >> \end{Soutput} >> \end{Schunk} >> which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone >> distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we >> include a boxplot of the data: >> >> \begin{center} >> \includegraphics{sweaveexample-002} >> \end{center} >> >> \end{document} >> ================================ >> sweaveexample.Rnw: >> ============================== >> \documentclass[a4paper]{article} >> >> \title{Sweave Example 1} >> \author{Friedrich Leisch} >> >> \begin{document} >> >> \maketitle >> >> In this example we embed parts of the examples from the >> \texttt{kruskal.test} help page into a \LaTeX{} document: >> >> <<>>= >> data(airquality) >> library(ctest) >> kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality) >> @ >> which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone >> distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we >> include a boxplot of the data: >> >> \begin{center} >> <<fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>= >> boxplot(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality) >> @ >> \end{center} >> >> \end{document} > > -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 ______________________________________________ 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.
