[R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There are two main TeX distributions for Windows, MiKTeX and
fptex.   texi2dvi.exe ships with MiKTeX but not fptex.
I think fptex has a texi2dvi UNIX shell script that in principle
could be used with the Cygwin shell on Windows though I have
never tried it.  Because of that MiKTeX is really the only
one of the two distributions that fully supports R although
many people who use R on Windows apparently use fptex and it
does not give problems apparently provided you don't get into
currently lesser used features such as vignettes (althoutgh that
may change).

Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:03:03 +0100 
From:   Gorjanc Gregor <Gregor.Gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si>
To:   <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Cc:   <Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at> 
Subject:   RE: [R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line 

 
Friedrich,

This texi2dvi is also very nice. Dou you know of any pros and cons
in comparison to rubber?

Is tex2dvi also shipped with R for windows? I am not able to find 
a binnary in my windows installation, however I found help page. 
Did I missed anything? I have 2.0.1

>>>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:29:00 +0100,
>>>>> Gregor GORJANC (GG) wrote:

> Hello!
> Those of you, who use Sweave a lot, will probably find my shell script 
> usable. You can get it at:

> http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/programs/shell/Sweave.sh

> No warranty, however don't hesitate to contact me if you find an error or 
> have a patch!

Very nice!

Side note 1: R ships a version of texi2dvi, hence you might use that
one in case rubber is not found.

side note 2: For make afficionados the follwing 2 rules in combination
with the Sweave script from the FAQ do almost the same (that's what I
use :-)

%.tex: %.Rnw
Sweave $<

%.pdf : %.tex
texi2dvi --clean --pdf $<


Best,
Fritz Leisch

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