lyx pgfSweave on mac

[floswald]

hi yihui,

in the unlikely case this is still of interest for anybody, I was succesful in hooking up lyx to pgfsweave on my mac. I didnt' get very far with the line for the converter in the preferences file as posted on your blog, i.e.
R -q -e "library(pgfSweave);pgfSweave('yourfile.Rnw')"

this may be specific to my machine, but pgfSweave() failed each single time.

instead i wrote into my lyx preferences:

\converter "literate" "latex" "R CMD pgfsweave -n $$i" ""

and that did the trick. one has to create a link into /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/pgfsweave from /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/pgfSweave/exec/pgfsweave-script.R
for pgfsweave if not installed from source.

by the way: i was a bit too quick with confirming success on the knitr front: I can just run a standard Sweave output with lyx. something seems not to be working.
looking forward to new developments!

cheers
flo

[yihui]

No no, please ignore everything in the web on the configuration of (pgf)Sweave in LyX, including my own blog posts and even the LyX wiki. What I can tell you at the moment are:

1. Sweave is fairly easy to use in LyX 2.0.2 now; the PDF manual is at https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf
2. pgfSweave is not too complicated to configure in LyX if you do not want tikz externalization, but it can be more complicated than you imagined if you do; I have a hackish R script but I do not want to post it;
3. it is easier for knitr to work with LyX (see the PDF manual and http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/), and knitr has all the features of pgfSweave

[floswald]

Hi Yihui,
you were right (of course). This works very well with lyx. Two things that were not clear to me:

1. the sweave module needs to be loaded
2. but i don't enter R code selecting the "chunk" environment, but plain tex

I kind of missed that in your video.

cheers
flo

[yihui]

Both issues have been addressed in the manual: https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf

The video is outdated somehow. I may do another one after LyX 2.0.3 is released, in which you will see both the Sweave module and the knitr module; I have finally done what I wished to do in LyX.

[floswald]

that's great! although I have to say I'm more than happy with knitr at the
moment, it's awesome.
cheers

On 28 January 2012 04:24, Yihui Xie <
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Both issues have been addressed in the manual:
https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf

The video is outdated somehow. I may do another one after LyX 2.0.3 is
released, in which you will see both the Sweave module and the knitr
module; I have finally done what I wished to do in LyX.

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[yihui]

Just a quick note: LyX 2.0.3 will be released soon, and knitr will be officially supported there. The announcement has not been made yet, but binaries and sources are already in FTP:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3/
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.3/

see http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/lyx/

[floswald]

i might say this is as good as it gets. thanks for letting me know!

On 29 February 2012 20:28, Yihui Xie <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Just a quick note: LyX 2.0.3 will be released soon, and knitr will be
officially supported there. The announcement has not been made yet, but
binaries and sources are already in FTP:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3/
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.3/

see http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/lyx/

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