[R] Sweave, Texshop, and sync with included Rnw file

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-01-17 6:33 PM, michele caseposta wrote:
> Hi,
> I just updated R and patchDVI (from CRAN).
> Now I can reverse search from the pdf to the included.Rnw.
> However, I cannot forward search from the included to the pdf. Is this how it is expected to work?

I think it works if you use first line

% !TEX root = Sweavetest.Rnw

in the included file, rather than

% !Rnw root = Sweavetest.Rnw

If not, I think you'll have to ask the TeXShop people.

Duncan Murdoch


> Forward and inverse search work between main Rnw and pdf.
>
> I am pasting below the code in the two files.
>
> %%%%%%%%% Sweavetest.Rnw %%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \SweaveOpts{concordance=TRUE}
>
> \title{an Sweave inclusion test}
> \author{Michele}
>
> \maketitle
>
> This is an example for the inclusion of RNW files and forward-inverse search.
>
> following is a chunk of sweave code:
>
> <<>>=
> n <- 5
> for(i in 1:n){
> print(i)
> }
> @
>
> \section{text from an included file}
> \SweaveInput{included.Rnw}
>
> \end{document}
>
> %%%%%%%%% Included.Rnw %%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> % !Rnw root = Sweavetest.Rnw
>
> this is some text included in an Rnw file
>
> <<>>=
> for(i in 1:3){
> print('included')
> }
> @
>
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 13-01-10 4:54 PM, michele caseposta wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> thanks for the replies.
>>> I might have not explained the problem completely.
>>> Duncan Mackay:
>>> Yes, I am already having a master file and separate Rnw files.
>>> Duncan Murdock:
>>> I am using patchDVI in the TexShop Sweave engine.
>>> Sync works flawlessly between the master file and the pdf produced by pdflatex.
>>>
>>> My problem is that I don't seem to be able to obtain sync between the *included* Rnws and the pdf, either way.
>>>
>>> The sweave engine is as follows:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>
>>> R CMD Sweave "$1"
>>> latexmk -pdf -silent -pdflatex=‘pdflatex –shell-escape –synctex=1′"${1%.*}"
>>> Rscript -e "library(‘patchDVI’);patchSynctex(‘${1%.*}.synctex.gz’)"
>>>
>>>
>>> Funny thing is that the sync works in texworks, using the following Rscript line
>>>
>>> patchDVI::SweavePDF('$fullname',stylepath=FALSE)
>>>
>>> I tried to mix and match configurations between texshop and texworks but I had no luck
>>
>> I just tried a simple example in TeXShop and it worked for me.  My Sweave engine is
>>
>> #!/bin/tcsh
>>
>> # set path= ($path /usr/local/bin)
>> Rscript -e "patchDVI::SweavePDF(  '$1' )"
>>
>>
>> So it seems to be work listing versions:  On the Mac, I'm using R 2.15.0 patched, rev 59478, with patchDVI version 1.8.1584 (I just uploaded 1.9 to CRAN, by the way), TeXShop version 2.43.
>>
>> It also works on Windows, where I have current releases of R and patchDVI installed.
>>
>> If you've got current versions of everything installed and it's still not working, could you try putting together a small reproducible example?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 13-01-09 9:09 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>> On 13-01-09 3:25 PM, michele caseposta wrote:
>>>>>> Hello everyone.
>>>>>> I am in the process of writing a book in Latex with Texshop, on Mac.
>>>>>> This book contains a lot of R code, hence the need to use Sweave.
>>>>>> I was able to compile Rnw files, and to sync back and forth from the pdf to the source Rnw.
>>>>>> My problem now is that the book is divided in Chapters, and every chapter is in its own Rnw file.
>>>>>> I can compile them from the main one (book.Rnw) using the directive
>>>>>>
>>>>>> \SweaveInput{chapter1.Rnw}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem stands in the fact that like this I am missing synchronization between the pdf and the source Rnw. If part of text is in book.Rnw I can synchronize, but if the text is in one of the included files, it just doesn't work.
>>>>>> I am using the sweave engine found in the following webpage:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://cameron.bracken.bz/synctex-with-sweavepgfsweave-in-texshoptexworks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anybody succeeded in synchronizing with included Rnw files?
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a problem addressed by my patchDVI package, available on
>>>>> R-forge.  You have a main file (which can be .tex or .Rnw), and put code
>>>>> at the start of each .Rnw file to indicate where to find it.  Then you
>>>>> just run Sweave on one of the chapters, and it automatically produces
>>>>> the full document.
>>>>>
>>>>> The sample document here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.umanitoba.ca/statistics/seminars/2011/3/4/duncan-murdoch-using-sweave-R/
>>>>>
>>>>> includes an appendix describing how to set this up with TeXShop.
>>>>
>>>> I just committed an update to the vignette in patchDVI giving a quick version of the instructions for basic use. Version 1.8.1585 has the new vignette.
>>>>
>>>> I should get around to pushing it to CRAN one of these days...
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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