[R] Can't install Sweave

[Yihui Xie]

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
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On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at 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
>>>>
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>>
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