On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 08:33 -0500, Charles Dupont wrote: > Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > > >>I'm using R 2.2.0 on an up-to-date version of Fedora Core 4 with the > >>latest version of Hmisc. When I run an example from the latex function I > >>get the following: > >> > >> > >>>x <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c('a','b'),c('c','d','enLine > >> > >>2'))) > >> > >>>x > >> > >> c d enLine 2 > >>a 1 3 5 > >>b 2 4 6 > >> > >>>latex(x) # creates x.tex in working directory > >> > >>sh: line 0: cd: “/tmp/Rtmpl10983”: No such file or directory > >>This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) > >>entering extended mode > >>! I can't find file `“/tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869”'. > >><*> “/tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869” > >> > >>Please type another input file name: q > >>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/q.tex > >>LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> > >>Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, > >>ngerman, b > >>ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, > >>esperanto, e > >>stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, > >>norsk, polis > >>h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, > >>swedish, tur > >>kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded. > >>File ignored > >>xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: /tmp/Rtmpl10983/file643c9869.dvi: No such > >>file. > >> > >> > >>How can I fix this? > >> > >>Rick B. > > > > > > I get the same results, also on FC4 with R 2.2.0. > > > > I am cc:ing Frank here for his input, but a quick review of the code and > > created files suggests that there may be conflict between the locations > > of some of the resultant files during the latex system call. Some files > > appear in a temporary R directory, while others appear in the current R > > working directory. > > > > For example, if I enter the full filename: > > > > /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex > > > > at the latex prompt, I get: > > > > > >>latex(x) > > > > sh: line 0: cd: “/tmp/RtmpC12100”: No such file or directory > > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) > > entering extended mode > > ! I can't find file `“/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869”'. > > <*> “/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869” > > > > Please type another input file name: *** loading the extensions > > datasource > > /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex > > (/tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.tex > > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> > > Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, > > ngerman, b > > ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, > > esperanto, e > > stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, > > norsk, polis > > h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, > > swedish, tur > > kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded. > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls > > Document Class: report 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg)) > > No file file643c9869.aux. > > [1] (./file643c9869.aux) ) > > Output written on file643c9869.dvi (1 page, 368 bytes). > > Transcript written on file643c9869.log. > > xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: /tmp/RtmpC12100/file643c9869.dvi > > > Hmmmm, It works for me. Interesting. > > It almost looks like the temp dir is not being created, but thats not > possible because R does that. It might be a Unicode issue with you > system shell. Can you run this statement in R > > sys(paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()),";", > "echo Hello BOB > test.test", > ";","cat test.test")) > > > What version of Hmisc are you using? What local are you using? > > Charles
Hmisc version 3.0-7, Dated 2005-09-15, which is the latest according to CRAN. > sys(paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()),";", + "echo Hello BOB > test.test", + ";","cat test.test")) sh: line 0: cd: “/tmp/RtmpGY5553”: No such file or directory [1] "Hello BOB" >From a bash console: $ cd /tmp/RtmpGY5553 $ pwd /tmp/RtmpGY5553 $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= On the creation of the sys() call, it looks like the backquotes are causing the problem: > paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir())) [1] "cd “/tmp/RtmpGY5553”" >From a bash shell: $ cd “/tmp/RtmpGY5553” bash: cd: “/tmp/RtmpGY5553”: No such file or directory $ cd "/tmp/RtmpGY5553" $ pwd /tmp/RtmpGY5553 According to ?dQuote: By default, sQuote and dQuote provide undirectional ASCII quotation style. In a UTF-8 locale (see l10n_info), the Unicode directional quotes are used. The See Also points to "shQuote for quoting OS commands." HTH, Marc ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html