I am trying to get up and running with Lyx and R, using Sweave

I have achieved this on my Windows XP PC at work with MikTex. Great.

HOWEVER On my Mac (OSX 10.4.7 with MacTex 2008 installed) I have come up against a “brick wall”

Lyx 1.6 is installed and I can generate dvi files from simple example .lyx files

R 2.8 is installed, I am up to the stage where R CMD Sweave foo.Rnw works, as does Latex foo.tex

kpsewhich Sweave.sty confirms that Latex can find Sweave.sty

I have followed the instructions in
http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/lyx/INSTALL
and copied files to the relevant locations into
\users\me\Library\Application Support\Lyx-1.6
And reconfigured / restarted Lyx

But whenever I open a test file such as
http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/lyx/Sweave-test-1.lyx

I get the same old message
“The layout file requested by this document, literate-article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. ....”

It seems like Lyx cannot find Sweave.sty, event though Latex can find it.

I'm at my wits end, so any advice on how to troubleshoot this would be very much appreciated. While I'm quite familiar with R, Lyx is very new to me.

Regards

Mike

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