Beta version 2.3.0 or 2.4.0?

2017-08-23 Thread Helge Hafting
I did a "git clone g...@git.lyx.org:lyx lyx23" in order to do translation work (and test in general). This compiled & ran with no issues, but Help->About says LyX version 2.4.0dev instead of 2.3 Did I get the wrong version for translation work - or is it supposed to say 2.4.0? Do I need

Re: Grammar checking

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
Hi Steve, I have never found a grammar checker that it useful for one's native language, in my case English. On the other hand, my French is rather primitive and a good grammar makes me intelligible if not exactly eloquent. I did try the MS one years ago and it was maddening. It seemed to want

Re: Beta version 2.3.0 or 2.4.0?

2017-08-23 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 11:22:51, schrieb Helge Hafting > I did a "git clone g...@git.lyx.org:lyx lyx23" in order to do translation > work (and test in general). > > This compiled & ran with no issues, but Help->About says LyX version > 2.4.0dev instead of 2.3 >

Re: Beta version 2.3.0 or 2.4.0?

2017-08-23 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 11:42:08, schrieb Kornel Benko > Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 11:22:51, schrieb Helge Hafting > > > I did a "git clone g...@git.lyx.org:lyx lyx23" in order to do translation > > work (and test in general). > >

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
I'd be happy to do. Please see attached file. Thanks On 22 August 2017 at 21:32, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 03:56:24PM -0400, John Kane wrote: > > Just as a minor follow-up the knitr.module is in usr/share/lux/layouts. > So > > I have knitr installed in

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 06:30:37, schrieb John Kane > INFO: +checking for "rsvg-convert"... no > INFO: +checking for "inkscape"... no for "rsvg-convert" try # sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin and for "inkscape" # sudo apt-get install inkscape

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
That screenshot is rather small. Perhaps this cropped one will be better On 23 August 2017 at 07:38, John Kane wrote: > I tried your suggestions. > librsvg2-bin seems to have installed successfully > > Inkscape aborted. > > This is weird indeed. I loaded the ubuntu

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 07:38:45, schrieb John Kane > I tried your suggestions. > librsvg2-bin seems to have installed successfully > > Inkscape aborted. > > This is weird indeed. I loaded the ubuntu software gui and it reports that > inkscape is, indeed,

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
Blast, forgot to include the text of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ --- aims-ubuntu-sagemath-xenial.list aims-ubuntu-sagemath-xenial.list.distUpgrade aims-ubuntu-sagemath-xenial.list.save dropbox.list dropbox.list.distUpgrade

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
Tried a purge (looked successful) and a reconfigure. Same error. ##==## An error occurred while running: Rscript --verbose --no-save --no-restore $$s/scripts/lyxknitr.R "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.SpjIUqEQ9242/lyx_tmpbuf0/""LyXnewfile1.Rnw"

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
Oh just had a look at my ppa file "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/" and the entries seem to have no connection with the errors reported in my last post. Am I missing another ppa file? On 23 August 2017 at 08:47, John Kane wrote: > Tried a purge (looked successful) and a

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The former has a smaller footprint than inkscape and works very well for me. ek On 2017-08-23 12:54 , Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 06:30:37, schrieb John Kane > >> INFO: +checking for "rsvg-convert"... no >> INFO: +checking for "inkscape"... no >

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread John Kane
Hello Murat! Your idea seems to have worked. The *sudo update R *seems to have worked but apparently, despite RStudio and RKwark seeming to find knitr I did a install.packages("knitr") at root level and R installed it. LyX seems to be finding knitr now. I just ran a couple of simple-minded plots