L.S.
I noticed weird tools::texi2dvi behaviour on R-alpha
when specifying an absolute path to the .tex
file.
The same phenomenon also appears to occur on
R-2.12.2, so maybe the issue is independent
of R.
I hope I did not overlook any important information.
Best,
Tobias
> require(tools)
Loading required package: tools
> getwd()
[1] "/home/tobias"
> texi2dvi("test.tex") # works OK
> texi2dvi("/home/tobias/test.tex")
Error in texi2dvi("/home/tobias/test.tex") :
Running 'texi2dvi' on '/home/tobias/test.tex' failed.
Messages:
egrep: Invalid range end
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: cannot read .//home/tobias/test.tex, skipping.
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-19 r54880)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
[8] base
>
This is Ubuntu 10.10 with GNU grep 2.6.3 and
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135.
The test file is most simple:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Test document.
\end{document}
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