[R] Sweave files generating miktex errors

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 29/01/2013 1:37 PM, Troy S wrote:
> Dear useRs--
>
> I have been using Sweave with miktex for years, but on a new install on
> Windows XP, miktex seems to be hung up on single quotes.  See example below.
>
> Digging through stackexchange, I found using \usepackage[noae]{Sweave} in
> the tex file solved the problem.  My questions are:
>
> --Why would this happen?  I have the ae package installed.
>
> --If inserting [noae] is the solution, how do I have this done by Sweave?
>
> I'll start with the error messages followed by the tex file outputted by
> Sweave.
>
> Any help, please?\

I don't know if this is the cause of your problem, but you are doing one 
Bad Thing:  you have a copy of Sweave.sty in the same directory as your 
document.  This is Bad because it is very easy to end up with Sweave.sty 
from R version X while using Sweave in R version Y, where X != Y.   You 
should leave Sweave.sty where it is in the R installation, and use

R CMD Sweave --pdf testsweave.Rnw

(or one of the many equivalents) to process it.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Troy
> >
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9)
> entering extended mode
> ("C:\Documents and Settings\v\My Documents\testsweave.tex"
> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
> Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans,
> ancientgreek, ar
> abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan,
> coptic,
> croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish,
> french, ga
> lician, german, german-x-2012-05-30, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian,
> iceland
> ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, latin,
> latvian,
>   lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek,
> ngerman, n
> german-x-2012-05-30, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese,
> roman
> ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,
> swissgerm
> an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian,
> usengl
> ishmax, welsh, loaded.
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\
> base\article.cls
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
> ("C:\Documents and Settings\v\My Documents\Sweave.sty"
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\base\ifthen.sty)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\graphics\graphicx.sty
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\graphics\graphics.sty
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\graphics\trig.sty)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\00miktex\graphics.cfg)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\pdftex-def\pdftex.def
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\generic\oberdiek\infwarerr.sty)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\generic\oberdiek\ltxcmds.sty))))
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\fancyvrb\fancyvrb.sty
> Style option: `fancyvrb' v2.7a, with DG/SPQR fixes, and firstline=lastline
> fix
> <2008/02/07> (tvz)) (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\upquote\upquote.sty)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\base\fontenc.sty
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def))
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\ae\ae.sty
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\base\fontenc.sty
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def)
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\ae\t1aer.fd))))
> ("C:\Documents and Settings\v\My Documents\testsweave.aux")
> (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\context\base\supp-pdf.mkii
> [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
> ) (c:\miktex2.9.4757\tex\latex\ae\t1aett.fd)
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <argument> +    V1=c('
>                      a','b','b','a','c','c','d','a'),
> l.14 +  V1=c('a','b','b','a','c','c','d','a'),
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{Sweave}
> \begin{document}
> This is a test.
> \begin{Schunk}
> \begin{Sinput}
> > (x <- 1+2)
> \end{Sinput}
> \begin{Soutput}
> [1] 3
> \end{Soutput}
> \begin{Sinput}
> > test <- data.frame(
> +     V1=c('a','b','b','a','c','c','d','a'),
> +     V27=c('1-oct-2004', '3-jan-2005','4-jan-2005','30-jan-2004',
> +     '12-oct-2012','13-sep-2012', '1-jan-1999', '31-dec-2004'),
> + V24=letters[1:8])
> \end{Sinput}
> \end{Schunk}
>
> \end{document}
>
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