[R] cygwin script for Sweave

Prof Brian Ripley
Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:07:22 -0000

Your version of R is old: see R CMD Sweave in the current versions.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Thomas Harte wrote:

> below is a very simple bash script to run Sweave from a cygwin terminal,
run pdflatex on
> the generated .tex file, and then view the resulting .pdf output.
>
> i usually use cygwin when i am (forced to be on) Windoze, but i found a few
issues
> with paths that this script works around.
>
> pdfview, used in the script, is simply:
>
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> $ cat /usr/local/bin/pdfview
> #!/bin/bash.exe
>
> if [ $# -eq 1 ]
> then
>        /c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 6.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe `cygpath -w
-a -s "$1"`
> else
>        /c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 6.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
> fi
>
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> mutatis mutandis for your own Adobe Reader.
>
>
> here is the script:
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> #!/bin/bash.exe
> # rnw.sh [.Rnw file]
> #
> # $1 must be a .Rnw file
> #
> RNWFILE=$1
> PWD=`pwd`
> FILEBASE=`basename $1 .Rnw`
> TEXFILE=$FILEBASE.tex
> PDFFILE=$FILEBASE.pdf
>
> echo " \
> 	library(\"utils\"); 		\
> 	setwd(\"`cygpath -m $PWD`\"); 	\
> 	Sweave(\"$RNWFILE\")		\
>      " 				\
>      | /c/R/R-2.3.1/bin/Rterm.exe --no-save --no-restore
>
> # the resulting .tex file contains an annoying "c:" ...
> # replace it with the pdflatex-friendly "/c" :
> sed -e 's/c:/\/c/g' --in-place $TEXFILE
>
> # now run text processing
> pdflatex $TEXFILE
> pdfview $PDFFILE &
>
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