Using Tikz to export a simple graph from R but the .tex file is empty

[WhiskersReneeWe]

Hi, I spent hours trying to research the solutions but I failed. Can anybody help with this issue?
I simply want to transfer R graph into my Latex file on Overleaf, but the .tex file produced by tikzDevice from R is empty.

Here is the simple test code in R:

install.packages('tikzDevice')
library(tikzDevice)
library(ggplot2)

tikz('plot_first.tex',width=3.5, height=3)
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

Here is what I get:

Creating temporary TikZ metrics dictionary at:
	C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA/tikzMetricsDictionary
Using TikZ metrics dictionary at:
	C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA/tikzMetricsDictionary
Measuring dimensions of: m
Running command: "C:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe" -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error -output-directory "C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA\tikzDevice243c7c9a3444" "C:/Users/SHIYAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpsvH0dA/tikzDevice243c7c9a3444/tikzStringWidthCalc.tex"
Error in getMetricsFromLatex(TeXMetrics, verbose = verbose) : 
TeX was unable to calculate metrics for:

I ran tikzTest(), here is the output (I can't fathom what is wrong):

Active compiler:
	C:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe
	MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.6050 (1.40.17) (MiKTeX 2.9)
	Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2016 Han The Thanh

Measuring dimensions of: A
Running command: "C:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe" -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error -output-directory "C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA\tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e" "C:/Users/SHIYAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpsvH0dA/tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e/tikzStringWidthCalc.tex"
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode

Sorry, but C:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe did not succeed.

The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:

  C:/Users/shi yan/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/pdflatex.log

You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page, if you need help.

TeX was unable to calculate metrics for:

	A

Contents of TeX file C:/Users/SHIYAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpsvH0dA/tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e/tikzStringWidthCalc.tex:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\usepackage[active,tightpage,psfixbb]{preview}

\PreviewEnvironment{pgfpicture}

\setlength\PreviewBorder{0pt}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\batchmode
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt, scale=1] (TeX) {A};
\path let \p1 = ($(TeX.east) - (TeX.west)$),
    \n1 = {veclen(\x1,\y1)} in (TeX.east) -- (TeX.west)
    node{ \typeout{tikzTeXWidth=\n1} };
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Contents of log file C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA\tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e/tikzStringWidthCalc.log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2018.9.24)  24 SEP 2018 11:41
entering extended mode
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ringWidthCalc.tex"

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Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe" -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error -output-directory "C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA\tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e" "C:/Users/SHIYAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpsvH0dA/tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e/tikzStringWidthCalc.tex"' had status 1 
2: In readLines(texLog) :
  incomplete final line found on 'C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA\tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e/tikzStringWidthCalc.log'
3: In readLines(texLog) :
  incomplete final line found on 'C:\Users\SHIYAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsvH0dA\tikzDevice243c1fae7c5e/tikzStringWidthCalc.log'

I am not sure how to solve this at all even though I checked all the relevant posts online.
Please help! Thanks a lot!

[bellackn]

Hi @WhiskersReneeWe, this looks like the issue discussed in #176.
What version of Windows are you running; also 32 or 64 bit? What's your R version? You could also paste your output of devtools::session_info() here.

[WhiskersReneeWe]

Hi @bellackn, Thank you very much!

Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 ui       RStudio (1.1.442)           
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 collate  English_United States.1252  
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 date     2018-09-26                  

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 package     * version date       source        
 base        * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 codetools     0.2-15  2016-10-05 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 coin          1.2-2   2017-11-28 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 colorspace    1.3-2   2016-12-14 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 compiler      3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 datasets    * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 devtools      1.13.5  2018-02-18 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 digest        0.6.14  2018-01-14 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 filehash      2.4-1   2017-04-07 CRAN (R 3.4.1)
 ggplot2     * 2.2.1   2016-12-30 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 graphics    * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 grDevices   * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 grid          3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 gtable        0.2.0   2016-02-26 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 labeling      0.3     2014-08-23 CRAN (R 3.4.1)
 lattice       0.20-35 2017-03-25 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 lazyeval      0.2.1   2017-10-29 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 MASS          7.3-49  2018-02-23 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 Matrix        1.2-12  2017-11-30 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 memoise       1.1.0   2017-04-21 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 methods     * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 modeltools    0.2-21  2013-09-02 CRAN (R 3.4.1)
 multcomp      1.4-8   2017-11-08 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 munsell       0.4.3   2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 mvtnorm       1.0-7   2018-01-26 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 party         1.3-0   2018-04-20 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 pillar        1.1.0   2018-01-14 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 plyr          1.8.4   2016-06-08 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 Rcpp          0.12.17 2018-05-18 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 rlang         0.2.1   2018-05-30 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 sandwich      2.4-0   2017-07-26 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 scales        0.5.0   2017-08-24 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 splines       3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 stats       * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 stats4        3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 strucchange   1.5-1   2015-06-06 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 survival      2.41-3  2017-04-04 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 TH.data       1.0-8   2017-01-23 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 tibble        1.4.1   2017-12-25 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 tikzDevice  * 0.12    2018-07-02 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 tools         3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 utils       * 3.4.4   2018-03-15 local         
 withr         2.1.1   2017-12-19 CRAN (R 3.4.3)
 yaml          2.1.18  2018-03-08 CRAN (R 3.4.4)
 zoo           1.8-1   2018-01-08 CRAN (R 3.4.3)

[bellackn]

Hmm, I still struggle with reproducing this error on a brand-new Windows 10 32 bit VM and R v3.4.4. What exact Windows are you using?

Also, what you could try is setting a global tikzMetricsDictionary as follows:

options(tikzMetricsDictionary = file.path("C:", "users", "[YOUR_USERNAME]", "tikzMetricsDict", fsep = .Platform$file.sep))

tikzDevice::tikz("plot_second.tex", width = 3.5, height = 3, standAlone = TRUE)
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

[bellackn]

Hello @WhiskersReneeWe, did you have time yet to test my suggested workaround?