directory problems?

[spg...@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm trying to get the tikzDevice working but having no joy. I suspect there is some problem finding the required latex files but I can't seem to fix it.

I try:

> require(tikzDevice)

Loading required package: tikzDevice

Loading required package: filehash

filehash: Simple key-value database (2.2-2 2013-12-16)

Warning messages:

1: package ‘tikzDevice’ was built under R version 3.0.3 

2: package ‘filehash’ was built under R version 3.0.2 

> tikz('normal.tex', width=8, height=8)

plot(meca108Ea,type='b',ylab='$V outcome$',xlab='$Trial$')

Creating temporary TikZ metrics dictionary at:

        C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpYHY27m/tikzMetricsDictionary

Error in system(latexCmd, intern = T, ignore.stderr = T) : 

  'C:\PROGRA~2\MiKTeX' not found

Then:

> options (tikzLatex = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin")

> tikz('normal.tex', width=8, height=8)

> plot(meca108Ea,type='b',ylab='$V outcome$',xlab='$Trial$')

Error in system(latexCmd, intern = T, ignore.stderr = T) : 

  'C:\Program' not found 

I've tried a few version but I'm not getting anywhere, does anyone know what the solution might be?

Thanks, Steve

[Carsten Oppitz]

I had the same error.
"Error in system(latexCmd, intern = T, ignore.stderr = T) : 'E:/Program' not found"

Then I tried to just plot my data:

> ggplot(as.data.frame(demand),aes(x=seq(1,length(demand)), y=demand))+geom_line()

But the same error appeared again, because some tikzDevices were still active in the background.
Try:
>dev.list()
and terminate all devices (I have to terminate all current devices manually  with dev.off() !). At least the error disappeared then when re-using tkiz():

> tikz(file=filename , width=3.5,height=3.5)
> plot<-ggplot(as.data.frame(demand),aes(x=seq(1,length(demand)), y=demand))+geom_line()
> dev.off() RStudioGD 2

File is successfully created (I checked creation time of the file), but unfortunately it isn't working with ggplot2 package properly. Output of the .tex file is

% Created by tikzDevice version 0.7.0 on 2014-09-23 18:30:40
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

[spg...@gmail.com]

Thanks Carsten. I tried again turning-off the device as you suggested and still no joy. Ho hum. I'm wondering if it has something to do with Windows long file names.

[kirill...@gmail.com]

This might be related to a problem that is already fixed in the development version on GitHub.