Dear R-help, I am using Sweave and pdflatex to generate a large report from data contained in my database (Postgres via RODBC). Currently, I work with a single R/Sweave file, containing several "chapter" indications for the Latex engine. My master tex file sets the document class, and includes the introduction, the main Sweave file, and a conclusions and reference file. I use a makefile to produce the final PDF (based on the thread "Sweave, R and complex latex projects: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/11/4891.html)
What I would like to do, is to be able to get 2 types of output with the same code (I'm lazy ;-) ): 1. my large report in a single PDF file, for printing out and distributing 2. a PDF and HTML file *per chapter*, for displaying on our website and allowing people to download individual chapters I have tried the following things: - see if pdflatex has an option to split PDF output per chapter; as far as I see, it doesn't - separate the Sweave file into chapter parts. The problems here are 1) that I do a certain number of R preparations (variables setting, table querying) which are data that I will need in later parts of the code, 2) that I would need to embed the generated tex files with per-chapter master tex files setting the documentclass and other options and including the chapter; I also tried to see if it was possible to tell pdflatex to assume documentclass X even if it wasn't specified in the file, but that doesn't seem to work either - generate my large PDF report as usual and manually cut it into chapters (tedious) - use R via PHP to output per-chapter HTMLs which I could turn into PDFs using output buffering; this works for the graphics, but I'm unable to get back e.g. tabular data for proper display; also I would loose the latex-y beauty of my PDF As I'm a novice in Latex and Makefiles usage, I'd be glad if you could tell me if what I want to do is feasible (I'm sure it is), and which would be the best, fussless method to do it (i.e. generate both types of output without changing the R/Sweave code). I know you'll probably tell me to break my long Sweave code into smaller parts, but as I briefly said above, I do some variable setting and table querying at the start - things I will repeatedly need in later chapters (e.g. I query a population table for computing incidence rates several times in later chapters). If there is a better way to split the code without having to requery the database at each chapter, I'll be glad to know about that too! BTW, I'm working on Ubuntu Linux. Thanks a lot for your insight, Anne-Marie ______________________________________________ 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.
