[Rcpp-devel] Work-around for Stangle failure on Rcpp-modules.Rnw?

[Douglas Bates]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 28 June 2010 at 10:00, Douglas Bates wrote:
> | $ make Rcpp-extending.pdf
> | rm Rcpp-extending.Rnw
> | cp -f Rcpp-extending/Rcpp-extending.Rnw .
> | Rscript -e "require(highlight); driver <- HighlightWeaveLatex(boxes =
> | TRUE, bg = 'white' ); Sweave( 'Rcpp-extending.Rnw', driver = driver );
> | "
> | Loading required package: highlight
> | Loading required package: tools
> | Loading required package: codetools
> | Loading required package: parser
> | Loading required package: Rcpp
> | Loading required package: methods
> | Writing to file Rcpp-extending.tex
> | Processing code chunks ...
> |  1 : term verbatim
> | Loading required package: inline
> |  3 : term verbatim
> |  4 : term tex
> | sh: highlight: not found
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Please try
>
>    sudo apt-get install highlight

Thanks.  Once I have installed the Ubuntu package I can build the pdf files.

Regards,
Doug
> We do not pre-test for this as clearly as we maybe should. It is also 'just'
> in the pdf-creation so we have not added it to SystemRequirements. Maybe we
> should.
>
> In short, 'highlight' has become overloaded as there is Romain's on CRAN and
> Andre's in Debian and elsewhere.  Some of Andre's code may end up in Romain's
> R package at which point we may no longer require the external binary.
>
> --
>  Regards, Dirk
>