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Hi, I am writing an Sweave document and am using 'xtable' to make frequency tables of diagnoses of people undergoing cholecystectomy. Some of these diagnoses contain Danish characters ("?", "?", and "?"), and these characters are all garbled in the Latex document after I run Sweave. The...

Hi, I have a problem using figures in Sweave: To save my figures, I use \SweaveOpts{prefix.string=figures/figure} I adjust the figure size for my pdf document using <<graphicsFun, fig=TRUE, echo=FALSE, height=10, width=5, eval=TRUE>>= this works fine. The file figures/figure-graphicsFun.pdf has the right size, and so has...

Trying to Stangle / Sweave a file $ cat vignette.Rnw %\VignetteEngine{knitr} \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \end{document} results in a misleading error message: ~/tmp$ R CMD Stangle vignette.Rnw Error: Vignette engine package not specified Execution halted when what is missing is the full specification knitr::...

...R code, but *not* code fragments. You can *not* intersperse comments in, say, a function body, or local() environment this way : when Sweaving, *R* complains of an incomplete source (makes noise about an unexpected end of input at the end of Chunk1, IIRC, and never sees Chunk2). I hoped that Sweave's "alternative" syntax could offer a way out : no such luck. There seems to be no way to delay R evaluation of a R chunk passed by Sweave ; at least, the "eval=FALSE" option of chunk declaration is not sufficient for that. Am I missing something in the Sweave nd odfWeve...