[Tikzdevice-bugs] tikz & pgfSweave queries

[Sharpie]

On Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:58:56 PM UTC-8, Sharpie wrote:
>
> On Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:18:27 AM UTC-8, baptiste auguie wrote
>
> > - I use a hack inspired from Rcpp to generate the vignettes during R
> > CMD BUILD with pgfSweave, essentially having a fake vignette for
> > Sweave and a makefile to copy files, etc. Do you know if the situation
> > might improve? I vaguely recall a discussion on R-devel where members
> > of R-core weren't against the idea of allowing different engines to
> > process the vignettes, but I don't know if steps have been taken
> > towards this.
> >
> I saw that thread on R-Devel as well and was quite excited about it.  As 
> Cameron mentioned, the tikzDevice uses a rather brutal hack that re-writes, 
>
> the Sweave internals while Sweave is processing the Rnw file and it would 
> be 
> nice to drop this in favor of something that is officially supported. 
>  However, Romain's patch hasn't been integrated into the R trunk yet.  I 
> just bumped the R-devel thread with a request for a status update---if 
> other 
> people chimed in as well, it would help motivate R-Core to implement it.
>

Just an update on the R patch for allowing the use of custom Sweave drivers 
in Vignettes: Friedrich Leisch has it on his TODO list, but he is currently 
in the middle of moving from Munich to Vienna.

So we won't be seeing this in R 2.12.2 next friday, but hopefully it will 
make the next release.

-Charlie