In terms of editors, I think RStudio is pretty good (http://www.rstudio.org/download/preview). Or LyX (http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/lyx/), or TeXmaker, WinEdit (http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/editors/)... All of them start a new R session when weaving the document, and all support one-click compilation. In all, anything but Windows Notepad.
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 Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/04/2012 3:25 PM, Alexander Shenkin wrote: >> >> Hello Folks, >> >> When I run the document below through sweave, rgui.exe/rsession.exe >> leaves a file handle open to the sweave-001.pdf graphic (as verified by >> process explorer). Pdflatex.exe then crashes (with a Permission Denied >> error) because the graphic file is locked. >> >> This only seems to happen when there is an error in the sweave document. >> When there are no errors, no file handles are left open. However, once >> a file handle is stuck open, I can find no other way of closing it save >> for quitting out of R. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! It would be nice to be able to >> write flawless sweave every time, but flawed as I am, I am having to >> restart R continuously. > > > I'd suggest a different workflow, in which you run a new copy of R every > time you want to Sweave a document. The files will be closed when that copy > dies, and the results are less likely to be affected by the current state of > your workspace (assuming you don't load an old workspace in the new copy). > > For example, when I'm working on a Sweave document, I spend my time in my > text editor, and get it to run R to process the file whenever I want to see > what the output looks like. > > The only real disadvantages to this approach that I can think of are that > you need to figure out how to tell your text editor to run R (and that might > be hard if you're using a poor editor like Windows Notebook, but is usually > easy), and it will run a tiny bit slower because you need to start up R > every time. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> Thanks, >> Allie >> >> >> OS: Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 >> >> >> > sessionInfo() >> R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) >> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) >> >> >> test.Rnw: >> >> \documentclass{article} >> \title {file handle test} >> \author{test author} >> \usepackage{Sweave} >> \begin {document} >> \maketitle >> >> \SweaveOpts{prefix.string=sweave} >> >> \begin{figure} >> \begin{center} >> >> <<fig=TRUE, echo=FALSE>>= >> df = data.frame(a=rnorm(100), b=rnorm(100), group = c("g1", >> "g2", "g3", "g4")) >> plot(df$a, df$y, foo) >> @ >> >> \caption{test figure one} >> \label{fig:one} >> \end{center} >> \end{figure} >> \end{document} >> >> >> >> Sweave command run: >> >> Sweave("test.Rnw", syntax="SweaveSyntaxNoweb") >> >> >> >> Sweave.sty: >> >> \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} >> \ProvidesPackage{Sweave}{} >> >> \RequirePackage{ifthen} >> \newboolean{Sweave@gin} >> \setboolean{Sweave@gin}{true} >> \newboolean{Sweave@ae} >> \setboolean{Sweave@ae}{true} >> >> \DeclareOption{nogin}{\setboolean{Sweave@gin}{false}} >> \DeclareOption{noae}{\setboolean{Sweave@ae}{false}} >> \ProcessOptions >> >> \RequirePackage{graphicx,fancyvrb} >> \IfFileExists{upquote.sty}{\RequirePackage{upquote}}{} >> >> >> \ifthenelse{\boolean{Sweave@gin}}{\setkeys{Gin}{width=0.8\textwidth}}{}% >> \ifthenelse{\boolean{Sweave@ae}}{% >> \RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc} >> \RequirePackage{ae} >> }{}% >> >> \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Sinput}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl} >> \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Soutput}{Verbatim}{} >> \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Scode}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl} >> >> \newenvironment{Schunk}{}{} >> >> \newcommand{\Sconcordance}[1]{% >> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined% >> \csname newcount\endcsname\pdfoutput\fi% >> \ifcase\pdfoutput\special{#1}% >> \else\immediate\pdfobj{#1}\fi} >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.
