R help - Aug 2010 - texi2dvi: option "clean" also deletes the generated pdf file

Dear expeRts,

below are two examples of using texi2dvi. The problem becomes clear from the 
second example: on cleaning, texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf file.
Is there a solution?

Cheers,

Marius

## Example 1: texi2dvi cleans fine, without deleting the generated .pdf
require(tools)
sink(file="myLaTeXFile1.tex")
          cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
          cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
          cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
          cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
          cat("\\begin{document}\n")
          cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
          cat("\\end{document}\n")
sink()
texi2dvi("myLaTeXFile1.tex",pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE) 

## Example 2: texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf
require(tools)
filepath <-
paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="")
sink(file=filepath)
          cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
          cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
          cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
          cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
          cat("\\begin{document}\n")
          cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
          cat("\\end{document}\n")
sink()
texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE)

Dear Marius,

from reading the texi2dvi man-page and R-help on texi2dvi I suggest to set
'clean=F' and use 'texi2dvi = getOption("texi2dvi
--mostly-clean")' instead.

Tim

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Marius Hofert
wrote:
> Dear expeRts,
> 
> below are two examples of using texi2dvi. The problem becomes clear from
the
> second example: on cleaning, texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf file.
> Is there a solution?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
> 
> ## Example 1: texi2dvi cleans fine, without deleting the generated .pdf
> require(tools)
> sink(file="myLaTeXFile1.tex")
>           cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
>           cat("\\begin{document}\n")
>           cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
>           cat("\\end{document}\n")
> sink()
> texi2dvi("myLaTeXFile1.tex",pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE) 
> 
> ## Example 2: texi2dvi also deletes the generated .pdf
> require(tools)
> filepath <-
paste(getwd(),"/test/myLaTeXFile2.tex",sep="")
> sink(file=filepath)
>           cat("\\documentclass{article}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage[english]{babel}\n")
>           cat("\\usepackage{blindtext}\n")
>           cat("\\begin{document}\n")
>           cat("\\blindtext[10]\n")
>           cat("\\end{document}\n")
> sink()
> texi2dvi(filepath,pdf=TRUE,clean=TRUE,quiet=TRUE)
> 
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