Am 08.09.2010 um 23:59 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:

> Le 8 sept. 10 à 17:27, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. a écrit :
>> I guess that information concerning LyX in the R-project will be updated 
>> when LyX 2.0.0 is on the can.
>> The same will be true with "LyX with R through Sweave" in the LyX wiki. But, 
>> please, why Sweave.sty is
>> not included with LyX 2.0.0 binaries? At least it is not included in the 
>> *.dmg one. If it is now (with
>> the new 2.0.0 release) possible to use Sweave out of the box, why not 
>> include Sweave.sty with the LyX distribution?
> 
> Normally, what happens is that R is installed with Sweave.sty somewhere, but 
> LaTeX has to find it.
> We do not want to ship it, since there is a risk of having a version that is 
> not the right one.

I was not about to add it to the package :-)
I can remember the discussion about that topic and that it is intentionally not 
included into LyX.

> Before R 2.8.0, Sweave made a good job at adding
> \usepackage{/path/to/sweave/Sweave}
> in the header of the document and the file was found. With current versions, 
> this is not the case anymore
> unless the environment variable SWEAVE STYLEPATH DEFAULT is set to true.
> 
> We need to find a way to automate this. Asking users to install the R file is 
> bad. It seems however that
> one cannot pass options to "R CMD Sweave".

The problem to locate Sweave.sty is platform independent, I guess?
So, "smart" solutions with creating a symlink are no option.
Setting the environment would work?


But I'm asking without having the option to test something. 
I'll return to this after finishing the spell checker stuff.

Stephan

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