[TxMt] Sweave bundle problems following sweave bundle update

[xolela at mac.com]

Haris & Alan,


I apologize  ahead for the relatively long post that follows but I  
hope that it assists you as you continue in this process of improving  
these tools on our behalf.

Thanks so much as always for your assistance.  Interestingly,  we   
all seem to be going through a similar squeeze (I too being in the  
midst of my thesis completion) & I wonder how you guys manage to  
offer your attention under these circumstances .

I downloaded the revised updated Sweave bundle from the  temp link  
that Haris set up.

This has definitely  solved some  of  my problems. The   latex  
markings (scoping)  seems to have been  solved.  However,  for a  
reason that is not clear,  my assignment of  key activation for the  
"sweave in R'"  and "Typeset & View"  do NOT work  (they still open   
Finder windows instead)..       The Menu options show these key  
activations as present  & indeed work when triggered from the menu  
(which is somewhat inconvenient  given that I use key activations alot).


My current workflow is almost similar to Alan's.

I have a central  (master)  latex file that essentially has most of  
the latex headers,  and brings in different latex files using the  
\include statement (including the *.tex file created from the *.snw  
from the sweave session).  This master latex file  is what has been  
set as my  TM_LATEX_MASTER in the sweave project.  These included  
latex files are edited separately & saved.  My  single *.snw file is  
actually my Results chapter & I spend most of my  time with this  
file.  Like Alan, I  will work on an R  analysis/plot etc   which I  
incorporate in the my sweave file  & do the "Sweave in R"  just to  
see that the R code is working    fine.  If is then  I do the  
"Typeset & View"  within this sweave file (which runs my master   
latex file  - including the *.tex file that was created by the sweave  
session).

So I do  still like the optional   functionality of having a separate  
"Sweave in R"   and "Typeset & View".

On the other hand, I also like to have the new option introduced by  
Haris of  "Sweave, Typeset  & view" .    This is especially so if my  
edits in the Sweave file have only occurred  in the latex-only scoped  
parts & so I do not have to check the R output.

But the "Sweave, Typset & view"  is not working properly for me so far.
When I make an edit in one of my  separate *.tex files that is  
included by the master tex file and do the    "Sweave, Typset &  
view"   of  the .snw file, the edits of that include tex file do not  
show up.  On the other hand, when simply  do  "Typeset & View" of the  
same *.snw file the edit shows up in the pdf view.


So the 2 major issues at the moment are the ones highlighted in red  
above (the failure of key activation being most important).

I really appreciate the improvements that you 2  have made in the  
Sweave bundles (as well as those  made in the latex & R bundles by  
Haris).   My thesis has benefited from the way these 3 bundles - &  
the stata bundle which is still in infancy -  have been efficiently  
brought together  for me  by textmate.

Thanks again for your time given your own circumstances.


To Answer some specific qns:

> Are you sure you're using both the newest sweave and latex bundles?
Yes I am.  I  updated my Latex bundle  just prior to my initial  
attempt to update the Sweave bundle using   snv up *.tmbundle   (to  
some extent because I wanted to update my R bundle with the cool  
tools - thanks again Haris!).  My last snv showed that I was updated   
to revision 5980.


> You should set a TM_LATEX_MASTER variable for your sweave project.

Yes, I have been working over the past several months with this  set  
& it was working fine until the update.
Actually, it   now again works when I run "Typeset & view"  on the  
sweave file  using the menu option (but  not my  key trigger).


Danstan











On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Alan Schussman wrote:

> (Re-sent to the list after replying solely to Haris the first time.)
>
> On Nov 7, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
>> I think I might have forgotten to tell Alan about the most recent  
>> updates I've done. Here is a temporary location for the most  
>> recent bundle. Alan, perhaps you could update the bundle on your  
>> website?
>>
>
> Done, thanks for the updates, Haris. The archive on my site[1] is  
> your current bundle now, and it should do the trick for Danstan.
>
> Thinking broadly about the bundle and how I'm using sweave, it  
> seems to me that sweave ought to work for at least a few different  
> circumstances:
>
> 1. single .snw file sweave => typeset
> 2. sweave project (typeset optional; I use the sweave project to  
> prepare data for subsequent work, and frequently do not typeset at  
> this point.)
> 3. sweave current file => typeset (not really functionally  
> different than no. 1, just switched on the basis of  
> TM_LATEX_MASTER, probably)
>
> My current workflow is to begin with no. 2, and then work with the  
> R console to test code that I subsequently plug into a single  
> sweave file. When I'm ready, I sweave and typeset that single file  
> (which lets me avoid re-sweaving the whole big project each time I  
> want to fiddle with a table, for instance). The trick for the  
> bundle seems to me to be enabling smooth selection of a) master  
> sweave, b) per-file sweave, and c) typeset, with as few overlapping  
> key commands as possible.
>
> Anyway, I'll be eager to really work on this as soon as I finish  
> this little project I'm working on.
>
> Cheers-
> -Alan
>
> [1] http://textbench.com/tm/SWeave.zip
>
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